Mail merge stripping bold, italic formatting

[cowanji]

I am having the same issue working on a Mac, as well as a PC.



I have created a mail merge using data from Excel. Sample files attached.

All seems to be going well, except that any text that is formatted bold and italic text in excel is being stripped from the description text. We need this for APA formatting.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Jim Cowan

[macropod]

That behaviour is normal - a standard mailmerge transfers the data, not character formatting. If you need multiple formats, you'll need a separate data field and corresponding mergefield for each string in that format.

Alternatively, you might try using the older DDE mailmerge connection. To do that, see: https://support.office.com/en-us/art...C-ACD027D92A00. Note: I'm not sure if even that will retain character formats. In any event, DDE is essentially what Macs use so, if the formats aren't being preserved there, I doubt switching to DDE on a PC would make any difference.