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Old March 30th, 2010, 07:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
rroswell86
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Default merge from excel and formatting

I have fields in my excel document that include double spacing, etc. When I
export to Word, I loose that formatting. Can I fix this? (I asked this in
the Excel section, but realized it may be a word function)

Thanks!

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Old March 30th, 2010, 10:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Peter Jamieson
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Default merge from excel and formatting

Can you spell out exactly what you mean by "double spacing" and how you
applied it?

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

On 30/03/2010 19:37, rroswell86 wrote:
I have fields in my excel document that include double spacing, etc. When I
export to Word, I loose that formatting. Can I fix this? (I asked this in
the Excel section, but realized it may be a word function)

Thanks!

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Old March 30th, 2010, 10:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
rroswell86
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Default merge from excel and formatting

Data consists of paragraphs seperated by blank lines, as below:

xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxx

all in one cell.

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

Can you spell out exactly what you mean by "double spacing" and how you
applied it?

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

On 30/03/2010 19:37, rroswell86 wrote:
I have fields in my excel document that include double spacing, etc. When I
export to Word, I loose that formatting. Can I fix this? (I asked this in
the Excel section, but realized it may be a word function)

Thanks!

.

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Old March 30th, 2010, 11:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
macropod[_2_]
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Default merge from excel and formatting

Hi rroswell86,

In a mailmerge, you get the data, not the formatting. Line feeds in an Excel cell are just that and do not represent paragraphs in
Word - even if you copy the cell and paste it into Word manually, then convert the resulting cell from a table to text.

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macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]


"rroswell86" wrote in message ...
Data consists of paragraphs seperated by blank lines, as below:

xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxx

all in one cell.

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

Can you spell out exactly what you mean by "double spacing" and how you
applied it?

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

On 30/03/2010 19:37, rroswell86 wrote:
I have fields in my excel document that include double spacing, etc. When I
export to Word, I loose that formatting. Can I fix this? (I asked this in
the Excel section, but realized it may be a word function)

Thanks!

.


 




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