Mail Merge Field - Font Switch?

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Derek Hart - 15 Oct 2007 18:16 GMT

I know ahead of time when I put a merge field into a document that it will
be a wingdings font, but if I make the field wingdings, the template looks
pretty stupid because the whole field is in wingdings. Is there some kind of
switch I can put on a merge field, or some way to designate that it should
be the wingdings font without having to highlight the WHOLE field and make
it wingdings?

Derek

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Peter Jamieson - 15 Oct 2007 22:10 GMT

Select the first non-space letter of your field, e.g. the "M" of Mergefield,
and apply the font you want., and add a \*charformat switch to the field.
Select the field and update it.

(Personally I would prefer a \*font "fontname" switch or some such, but it
doesn't exist)

Peter Jamieson

> I know ahead of time when I put a merge field into a document that it will
> be a wingdings font, but if I make the field wingdings, the template looks
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> Derek

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MYFIELD \*Charformat

charformat switch applies the format of the first letter of the statement to
the rest of the field - in this case you can format just the "M" as
wingdings (whatever you want)

> I know ahead of time when I put a merge field into a document that it will
> be a wingdings font, but if I make the field wingdings, the template looks
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>
> Derek

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