Microsoft KB Archive/147344

= WD: Formatting Lost After Updating LINK and INCLUDETEXT Field =

Article ID: 147344

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

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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

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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

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