How to preserve formatting in MS Word MailMerge ?
I am doing a mailmerge using MS Word 2013. I have a table in an MS Word 2013 file with entries, and a few words have simple formatting (e.g. italics or bold). I want to merge to a new directory (e.g. one or two pages with all the table entries), but when I do this, the formatting is lost, and everything comes out roman (non-italic) characters.
In the mailmerge document, I have tried
MERGEFIELD "Question" \* MERGEFORMAT
and
MERGEFIELD "Question" \* CHARFORMAT
with the same results: no italics or bold.
Is there a way I can create the merge I want?
Thank you.
In the mailmerge document, I have tried
MERGEFIELD "Question" \* MERGEFORMAT
and
MERGEFIELD "Question" \* CHARFORMAT
with the same results: no italics or bold.
Is there a way I can create the merge I want?
Thank you.
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Your suggestion sounds like it could work in different situations, but not mine. My example (above) was really simple, but in fact I have several words in each field, forming a sentence or two, and most words are roman type, and a few words are bold or italic.
You seem to be saying at the end that MS Word MailMerge will ignore the formatting of the source database? I know in my case I can cut and paste the information into a new document, but I was really hoping to use the merge feature, as future merges will be getting more complicated.
THank you.
You seem to be saying at the end that MS Word MailMerge will ignore the formatting of the source database? I know in my case I can cut and paste the information into a new document, but I was really hoping to use the merge feature, as future merges will be getting more complicated.
THank you.
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GrahamSkan: Thank you for doing more research. I haven't done mailmerge in a while, and instead have been working with MSSQL databases that contain formatted website content and displaying the formatted page content using programming - I remembered incorrectly that I could do this simple task also in mailmerge.
I will try your macros shortly.
Thank you.
I will try your macros shortly.
Thank you.
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I have a list in file data.docx. Let's say it looks like this:
FRUIT
Apples
Oranges
Pears
In my really simple merge, I simply want to duplicate this list. I want apples to be BOLD, oranges to be italic and Pears to be neither bold nor italic.
I am not trying to preserve any other aspect of the formatting (e.g. not the font name or size), but I could still manage if all this information copied over.
Does this make sense now?
Thank you.