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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / October 2003Mail Merge Font
I Have a macro that I play in my data source for my mail merge. In this macro there is a few words that are bold and the rest are not. When I merge the data source the bolded words are no longer bold. Is there a way that I can keep only a few words bold in 1 merge field without going into the merged document and bolding them? If your data source is a Word document, you may be able to use a trick to preserve some formatting: suppose you use { MERGEFIELD xyz } in your mail merge main document to include the text (use Alt-F9 to see the field codes). Delete the word MERGEFIELD so you are left with { xyz }, and try again. This trick only really works with data sources that Word considers to be word documents. -- Peter Jamieson MS Word MVP > I Have a macro that I play in my data source for my mail > merge. In this macro there is a few words that are bold > and the rest are not. When I merge the data source the > bolded words are no longer bold. Is there a way that I can > keep only a few words bold in 1 merge field without going > into the merged document and bolding them? I did what you suggested and it worked wonderfully for one of my documents but it did not work for another. Why? >-----Original Message----- >If your data source is a Word document, you may be able to use a trick to [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >. > Why? I have no idea since you provide absolutely no information about what the difference between your documents might be. It's worth bearing in mind that you are using a "trick", which means there are probably lots of cases in which it won't work. My best guess is that you could be using a field name that is the same as a built-in Word field such as "TITLE", which will give entirely the wrong result. Otherwise, what /is/ the difference between the two documents? -- Peter Jamieson MS Word MVP > I did what you suggested and it worked wonderfully for one > of my documents but it did not work for another. Why? [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > > >. |
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