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10-13-2014, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by NobodysPerfect

When creating tables I often have to change table formatting until it fits my formatting ideas.

The problem, then, is that you're overriding the field's formatting when you change the table format. That's what's causing Word to add the \* MERGEFORMAT switch. IOW, it's behaving as intended.

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