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Heidi - 14 May 2008 20:31 GMT

I am mail merging in Word from and Excel list. I format all the the text in
the Word document to be Times New Roman 12 pt, but when I complete the merge,
the field names that were merged come in with Garamond 10 pt. I made sure
the merged field names (place holders) in the Word document were formatted
correctly, but it still doesn't work. I've had this problem with a computer
a few years ago, and I seem to remember I had to download some kind of
font... but can't remember exactly what I need to do. Any help???

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 14 May 2008 23:40 GMT

In the Mail Merge main document, press Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of
the field codes and insert

\* charformat

inside the closing }. Then apply the desired formatting to the M of
MERGEFIELD.

Use Alt+F9 again to toggle of the display of the field codes and when you
execute your merge the formatting of the data will be whatever you applied
to the M.

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>I am mail merging in Word from and Excel list. I format all the the text
>in
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> a few years ago, and I seem to remember I had to download some kind of
> font... but can't remember exactly what I need to do. Any help???

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Heidi - 15 May 2008 13:32 GMT

You are brilliant... I've asked EVERYONE including my IT helpdesk and no one
could help, but this code fixed it. THANK YOU!!!

> In the Mail Merge main document, press Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of
> the field codes and insert
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
> > a few years ago, and I seem to remember I had to download some kind of
> > font... but can't remember exactly what I need to do. Any help???

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