WD: Formatting Lost After Updating LINK and INCLUDETEXT Field
Article ID: 147344
Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0a
- Microsoft Word 6.0c
- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q147344
SYMPTOMS
When linking two Word documents together using a LINK or INCLUDETEXT
field, the document containing the field loses paragraph and/or character
formatting after updating that field.
CAUSE
Text from the source document may have been deleted or added. When Word
encounters a change in paragraph or character formatting, formatting of the
preceding paragraph or word is applied to the following paragraph or word.
STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
WORKAROUND
Remove the \* MERGEFORMAT switch from the LINK or INCLUDETEXT field then
update the field by pressing F9.
MORE INFORMATION
In general, if you paste a linked object as RTF text, it first displays
with the same formatting as in the source application. If you change the
text formatting of the object in Word and then reformat the source, the
Word formatting prevails because of the "\* mergeformat" switch in the
LINK field. The actual data in the object changes to reflect the source.
Additional query words: removed linked links lose insert \rswitches loss heading style styles file
Keywords: kbhowto kbfield KB147344