Mail merge into a table problem

[JenC]

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could help me.

I have written a dll in VB6 which performs mail merge into
a word document. When the mergefied is in a table I get
the following result:

mergefield name: <<TestField>>
text to be inserted: Testing
after mailmerge: Testingd>>
what it should be: Testing

This only happens when I try and mailmerge within a table
otherwise it is fine.

Has anyone got any ideas/suggestions?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,
Jen
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[Word Heretic]

G'day "JenC" <[email protected]>,

have you tried pre-padding the right of the cell (ie insert after the
field) with a zero-width space or something?

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could help me.

I have written a dll in VB6 which performs mail merge into
a word document. When the mergefied is in a table I get
the following result:

mergefield name: <<TestField>>
text to be inserted: Testing
after mailmerge: Testingd>>
what it should be: Testing

This only happens when I try and mailmerge within a table
otherwise it is fine.

Has anyone got any ideas/suggestions?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,
Jen
.

Steve Hudson

Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia
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[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi JenC,

Whenever I've seen anything like this, it turned out to be a
damaged binary structure in the document.

If you select the table, then do Table/Convert to text. And
then immediately do Table/Convert to Table does the problem
go away?

I was wondering if someone could help me.

I have written a dll in VB6 which performs mail merge into
a word document. When the mergefied is in a table I get
the following result:

mergefield name: <<TestField>>
text to be inserted: Testing
after mailmerge: Testingd>>
what it should be: Testing

This only happens when I try and mailmerge within a table
otherwise it is fine.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[JenC]

Hi Cindy,

I have tried this and it stills remains the same. If you
have any other ideas it would be appreciated.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Jen