Have you tried to run a macro, then edit the code and paste into your program?


>What I'm talking about is bolding parts of a single merge field. A given letter might have a single merge field with text that I've generated at runtime that might look something like:
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>Item1: Some Book Name Ship Date: 2/15/08
>Item2: Another book Back Ordered
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>Itemn: Last thing on order
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>The entire string is contained in a *single* merge field, yet I'd like to be able to bold "Item1:" and "Ship Date:"
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>It's hard to give enough examples here to really show the utility of what I'd like to do. The short story is that I build portions of documents on the fly and the ability to do something like:
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>Item1: Some Book Name Ship Date: 2/15/08
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>in the text string that fills the merge field and have Word make it bold would be useful. Probably not possible.
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>Gary
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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.
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>>>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.
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>>>My users don't want to hand modify large documents if I can handle it technically.
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>>>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.
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>>>Thanks,
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>>>Gary
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>>They don't have to modify generated letters. They just have to modify MAIN document and BOLD only these fields they want.
>>If you use Mail merge you have One main document and one Data document (no matter what type it is DOC, XLS, CSN, TXT,DBF etc.)
>>WHen you generate letter you open Main document AND Data document and do Mail Merging. What I meant was let user modify Main document, not others. I doubt it have more that 2-3 pages (again I speak about template letter, not generated one).