For any more than the formatting that can be applied by use of Word field
formatting switches, I think that you would have to use a "roll-your-own"
equivalent to mailmerge where in place of a mail merge main document
containing mergefields, you would use a template containing docvariable
fields and then you would run a macro that would create a new document from
that template for each record in data source, setting the values of
variables in the document to the value of corresponding field for that
record in the data source and making use of the formatting information in
the data source to apply the required formatting.
For information on Word field formatting switches, see "Formatting Word
fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at:
I am trying to setup a mail merge and use rtf text fields from a database.
These rtf fields contain the formatting instructions for bolding, bullets,
font settings etc. However, the problem I am having is word does not
recognize these formatting characters and prints everything as plain text.
My main document is an rtf file.
How can I get word to interpretate these instructions? I am using Word
2002.
Re: RTF Mail Merge Fields ... Another thing the bullets cause is to change the paragraph numbering that follows the bulleted list i.e. ... This all seems to work but when it gets merged into word, all of the formatting is lost. ... If you copied your Access data to a Word document, used that as the data source, and used REF fields instead of MERGEFIELD fields to insert data, some of the formatting gets through, but it's all rather arbitrary. ... The only way I know to get the RTF text from Access to Word that has any hope of working is to export the contents of each Access RTF field to a .rtf file on disk, then insert t using an INCLUDETEXT field. ... (microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields)
Re: RTF Mail Merge Fields ... The problem with trying to include RTF text via merge fields is that merge fields only insert character data, with no formatting information from the data source.... It appears to me from the use of these switches I can use /*charformat to bold, ... (microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields)
Re: RTF Mail Merge Fields ... The thing is that setting selBullet to true is something you would set in the Richtext editor control's properties - selBullet isn't something in the RTF spec.... whether in fact by using Alt-7 you are inserting a bullet character... These will all merge fine from the data source.... In other words, using MERGEFIELD fields loses the most formatting, using REF fields with a Word format data source loses less formatting, using INCLUDETEXTed RTF files generated on the fly /may/ lose less than that, which may clash in various ways). ... (microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields)
Re: RTF Mail Merge Fields ... is there a way to ensure that Word honours the formatting that you applied? ... As far as is concerned, if you are using the Richtext control in VB6 to generate the RTF in the data source, then ... do underlines and we also need to do bullets:... (microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields)
Re: RTF Mail Merge Fields ... These will all merge fine from the data source.... What I'm doing now to get around this is when a bulleted list is setup on the merge source I am inserting ALT 7 instead setting selBullet to true per the rtf spec.... In other words, using MERGEFIELD fields loses the most formatting, using REF fields with a Word format data source loses less formatting, using INCLUDETEXTed RTF files generated on the fly /may/ lose less than that, which may clash in various ways). ... do underlines and we also need to do bullets:... (microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields)
