Hi LO,
This sounds rather like the paragraph you've got the mailmerge field in is formatted with a particular Word Style, and someone has
overridden that with hard-formatting. The best way of dealing with this is to use the Style definitions correctly.
Having said that, there is a workaround:
.. select the problem field
.. press Shift-F9 to reveal the field coding, which should look something like: {MERGEFIELD MyData}
.. format the 'M' in MERGEFIELD the way you want the output formatted
.. add '\* Charformat' to the end of the field, thus: {MERGEFIELD MyData \* Charformat}
.. delete the '\* Mergeformat' switch if it's present
.. run your mailmerge.
Cheers
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macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]
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"LO" <LO[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:95F6D274-A0EC-40FF-8FCB-B1DAFE1FAA9A[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] > I'm creating mail merge documents. When the data is uploaded into the merge
> document, the format of the merge field changes and does not match the rest
> of the Word Document. I attempt to correct the text format, but as soon as
> the document is printed, the format goes back to the original which does not
> match the rest of the document. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
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