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Originally Posted by steven.allman View Post
It is a plain text, but it is always just a single record, so 'find/replace' would actually take longer than editing source from within the Mail Merge step by step.

Not if it's built into a macro that does the cleanup work then executes the merge for you.
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However, the idea of splitting the fields sounds intriguing. Could I not split the fields, and then eliminate a one of the new fields?
Yes, you could do that, or you could leave in in the data and simply not use it.
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