Text attributes change after INCLUDE 
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 Text attributes change after INCLUDE

I have mail-merge document (Word 2000) which connects to an ODBC-table. The
merge copy different text-files into the document depending on the data in
the ODBC-table. I use the instruction INCLUDETEXT. When Word returns the
text to the document, the first 30 characters are bold and the rest of that
paragraph has the right attributes. The next paragraph changes from Times
New Roman to Courier. The text files are plain text format. A carriage
return marks new paragraph. Can anything be done to avoid this?


Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:33:42 GMT  
 Text attributes change after INCLUDE
Hi Bll,

Quote:
> I have mail-merge document (Word 2000) which connects to an ODBC-table. The
> merge copy different text-files into the document depending on the data in
> the ODBC-table. I use the instruction INCLUDETEXT. When Word returns the
> text to the document, the first 30 characters are bold and the rest of that
> paragraph has the right attributes. The next paragraph changes from Times
> New Roman to Courier. The text files are plain text format.

You don't give a lot of details, so we have to do a lot of guesswork, here...

Does the IncludeTExt field contain a \* Mergeformat switch, by any chance? If
you delete it, do you see a change in behavior?

How about if you insert a \* CharFormat switch at the end of the IncludeText
field?

Cindy Meister
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Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:59:40 GMT  
 
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