Mail Merge Results

[Guest]

Hi,

I have successfully created a Mail Merged document function that pull data
from a table in my Access db into MSWord. Some of the fields in the fields
in the table include up to 100 characters and may contain special
symbols/characters like
( *, :, &).

Problem:
After I've completed the entire merge function and open my Word document,
the fields that include longer lines of data do not wrap-indent...so I
selected the entire Merge field, right-clicked on the field and selected Edit
field option. I then selected Verticle Formatting and saved the document.

When I ran the mail merge function again, the fields that have Verticle
formatting set contained wierd characters/symbols where the (*, &, and ,)
used to appear in fields of my Access table.

What can I do to fix this?

 

[John Nurick]

Hi Elyse,

As far as I can make out the Vertical Formatting switch in the merge
field only applies if you're using vertical text in an East Asian
script. That puts your question way outside the usual expertise of
people in this group, where few people are Word experts and fewer still
know non-European scripts.

If you're working in roman script, the Vertical Formatting switch
probably isn't the answer to whatever problem you were trying to solve.
If you're using Chinese or another East Asian script, try asking in a
forum that specialises in the language in question.

 

[Guest]

The problem is that I don't know how to format the merge fields, that contain
lots of data, so that all of the text is left-aligned. ie:

It looks like this

Location <merge field is here> text..................
......................

I want it to look like this:

Location <merge field is here> text..................
.....................

Is there something that I can do in Access to make sure that the merge field
data is formated correctly before it reaches MS-Word?

Should I send this request to an MS-Word forum?

Thanks
Elyse

 

[John Nurick]

You need to use Word's paragraph and/or table formatting commands to
format the paragraphs or table cells in which the mergefields are
placed.