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I made a Merge wizard for my users that allows them to merge their hundreds of different letters to either a Word doc or email based on a number of criteria. In some cases a single merge run might contain several hundred letters to different individuals.
For email, I merge to a Word doc and then save that doc as HTML, open THAT doc and insert into a file as HTML, along with possible graphics, for later email to the many recipients.
My users don't want to hand modify large documents if I can handle it technically.
I could certainly come up with various ways to do this such as inserting my own tags in the text and then post processing the output or something. But if I could simply finesse Word itself with some codes, chars or something, that would be a good thing. It might not be possible in Word, but I'd thought I'd ask.
Thanks,
Gary
>>Hi all,
>>I produce a lot of merge documents in Word and recently a user wanted me to bold part of a merge field.
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>>I'd love to be able to insert a tag, control char, escape code or something into the string I compose on the fly that is subsequently merged into the document, and in turn, bolds a part of the document.
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>>Anyone ever done this sort of thing?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Gary
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>Why not just user BOLD the fields He/She wants and save the document?
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