Change Case during Mail Merge

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Diane OConnor - 07 Jul 2004 21:32 GMT

I'm downloading a file from the AS/400 which has the
customer's name and address in CAPS. I need to merge this
into a Word document but I want to change the case-- Is
there a way to do this? Thanks, Diane

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Doug Robbins - 08 Jul 2004 01:10 GMT

Use Alt+F9 to toggle on the field codes in the mailmerge main document and
add a \* Caps switch inside the closing }

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> I'm downloading a file from the AS/400 which has the
> customer's name and address in CAPS. I need to merge this
> into a Word document but I want to change the case-- Is
> there a way to do this? Thanks, Diane

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Graham Mayor - 08 Jul 2004 11:52 GMT

You should be able to achieve what you want with a \*Caps formatting switch
on the mergefield(s)

eg {Mergefield Address1 \*Caps}

This will capitalize the first letter of each Word. There are other
formatting switches - see Word help.
and for more complex options - see
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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