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Fonts in a Mail Merge

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Julie - 26 Nov 2003 18:21 GMT
I have been working with a mail merge document and am attempting to have this letter read to have a customer's car listed by year, make, and model, for example 2000 Honda Civic.  Right now, it is retaining the font I have chosen for only some of these fields once merged, then it changes some others to Courier New.  I have tried changing the font in the Excel sheet, checking the box to retain formatting during update, and I cannot get it to work.  It also seems to be particularly changing ones that have a space in them, for example a 2002 Chevrolet 1500 Silverado, where "1500 Silverado" is all in the same cell in Excel.

Any suggestions
Cindy M  -WordMVP- - 27 Nov 2003 12:13 GMT
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> I have been working with a mail merge document and am attempting to have this letter read to have a customer's car listed by year, make, and model, for example 2000 Honda Civic.  Right now, it is retaining the font I have chosen for only some of these fields once merged, then it changes some others to Courier New.  I have tried changing the font in the Excel sheet, checking the box to retain formatting during update, and I cannot get it to work.  It also seems to be particularly changing ones that have a space in them, for example a 2002 Chevrolet 1500 Silverado, where "1500 Silverado" is all in the same cell in Excel.

In Word:
- Press Alt+F9 to display the field codes
- Add the \* CharFormat switch to the fields having this problem
- Be sure to remove any \* MergeFormat switches you find
- Alt+F9 again to hide the field codes

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

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