Cetin,
We're not talking about the same thing. You are showing a way to insert text and manipulate it in Word as part of a hard coded automation sequence.

Good stuff for sure, but I was looking for a way to have a merge source string that would turn bold, or something else, on and off. Most of my merge letters run off a text data file built by my merge routine without any subsequent manipulation.

Something like:
"(some tag)Please(some other tag) update your info and send back. Current notes are as follows:"

that Word would interpret as:
"Please update your info and send back. Current notes are as follows:"

would be ideal, not that html like tags would be necessary, anything would do.

I'm pretty convinced at this point that Word doesn't support such a thing. Thanks for the Word code example though, everything I learn about this sort of thing makes like a little easier!

Gary

>>Thanks for the code example. I appreciate the effort.
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>>The example is good for a post merge process method and I almost certainly will have to do it that way. I built pre and post merge method calls into my framework and use them when I have unique things to do to documents such as conditionally adding tables of information for one recipient but not another in the same merge run.
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>>I was just hoping that someone knew how to embed control codes somehow in a string that Word could interpret at merge time.
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>>John and Cetin, thanks for your suggestions as well.
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>>Gary
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>">I was just hoping that someone knew how to embed control codes somehow in a string that Word could interpret at merge time."
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>Did you read the sample I pointed too? It does it there.
>Cetin