Merge Field with Title Case format issue

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Craig - 17 Feb 2006 15:43 GMT

i have a small vb.net web application that creates a word document. it does
this by binding a dataset to mergefields within the word doc.

my problem is that i cant seem to get the title case working. is there a
specific reason why it wouldnt format?

eg. i have a merge field called <<Name>> the value within the dataset is
craig gamble. i would expect the merge field with title case format to be
displayed as Craig Gamble

but this isnt working? any reason why?

Cheers,
Craig

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 17 Feb 2006 20:55 GMT

When you press Alt+F9 to toggle the display of field codes, you should see:

{ MERGEFIELD Name \* Caps }

If that is what have, it should capitalize the first letter in each word.

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>i have a small vb.net web application that creates a word document. it does
> this by binding a dataset to mergefields within the word doc.
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> Cheers,
> Craig

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Graham Mayor - 18 Feb 2006 07:47 GMT

If the data source is entered in upper case, you will probably need to set
it to lower case first
{ MERGEFIELD Name \* Lower \* Caps }

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> When you press Alt+F9 to toggle the display of field codes, you
> should see:
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>> Cheers,
>> Craig

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