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TonyaG - 06 Aug 2004 21:01 GMT

I have a main merge document in Word 2000. The entire document consists of
these statements:
{ If { MERGEFIELD DAW1CD } = "A100" "{ INCLUDETEXT I:A100.DOC \* MERGEFORMAT
}" }

Each of the A***.doc's are themselves merge documents. I have these
documents formatted correctly. But when the main document is opened, some of
them have a completely different font in some areas, tab sets are missing,
bolding is applied, wrong text case. Every document is entirely in upper
case. One or two words will be lower case. Doesn't using Mergeformat keep
the formatting from the inserted document?

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Peter Jamieson - 10 Aug 2004 00:41 GMT

The trouble is that what Word does when it includes documents and document
fragments is not specified. Word just does what Word does.

What mergeformat is supposed to do is preserve the format of the previous
/result/. However, in any case except the very simple one where an entire
/result/ has a single format, It's not completely clear what that means, and
that's especially true where the field brings in an entire document.

I'd drop the \*Mergeformat.

In addition to that, you can get problems if the included documents use
style definitions that have the same names but different settings. You may
also find that there is a conflict between the formatting of the paragraph
containing the IF statement and the paragraphs in the INCLUDETEXT.

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> I have a main merge document in Word 2000. The entire document consists of
> these statements:
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> case. One or two words will be lower case. Doesn't using Mergeformat keep
> the formatting from the inserted document?

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