problem with printing bold and italic words

[david c]

I have a Word document that contains a series of if then
statements. Depending on the value stored in on of the
data fields the document will perform an INCLUDETEXT and
print the information in the document chosen.

Each document contains a test result. Each letter
contains the text "does not" in bold and italics. It also
includes the word "after", also in bold and italics.

In some of the letters the "does not" prints without the
enhancement and some print the "after" without the
enhancement. Others will print both properly.

I believe that there is something in the file that
includes the IF statements becuase if I open any of the
documents directly and merge from there the letter prints
properly.

Any help anyone is able to give would be greatly
appreciated.

David C

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Do your INCLUDETEXT fields have \*Mergeformat switches in them? If so, try
deleting the switch and see if that makes any difference.

 

[david]

I was having another problem and someone suggested doing
what you did. It helped the previous problem but did not
help this problem.
Dave

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Yes, IMO INCLUDETEXT has become less reliable on this front in Word 2002,
and I don't know what you can do about it.

The only other suggestions I can make (and they have no apparent connection
to the problem so they probably aren't very good suggestions either) are
that if possible you
a. avoid including section marks and the final paragraph mark in the
included text, and
b. see if it makes any difference if the included document text is saved in
a different format (say .rtf or HTML).

You can avoid including the final paragraph mark by opening the included
document, selecting everything except the final mark, and using
Insert|Bookmark to give a bookmark to the text. Then use the bookmark
parameter in your INCLUDETEXT field:

{ INCLUDETEXT "filepathname" "bookmarkname" }