
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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