Turn on bold formatting (press Ctrl+B).(Make sure you use the same 'yes' or 'Y' convention you used in step 2.) Type a space, followed by the equal sign (=) followed by 'yes' or 'Y' (in quotes), followed by another space.Insert the new merge field you added to the data source (FormatBold).At the point where you want the company name to appear in the document, insert a pair of field braces by pressing Ctrl+F9.For each company's record where you want the company name in bold, enter a 'Y' or 'yes' (be consistent) in the FormatBold field.In your data source file, add another field called 'FormatBold.' You can actually name it anything you like the purpose of the field is to indicate which companies should be formatted as bold when merged into the main document.Follow these steps to achieve the desired results: This can be worked around with a little ingenuity and the use of Word's conditional IF field. Unfortunately, Word doesn't provide a magic switch that you can use with the company merge field to force the formatting in the data source to be used. Even if you make some of the companies bold in the data source, Word ignores the formatting when it does the merge with your main document.

For instance, say one of the merge fields is a company name, and you want some of the companies to be shown in bold in your main document, and other companies to be shown in regular text. There are times, however, when this may not be desirable. Most of the time this is a desirable thing the information in the data source could have some bizarre formatting that you don't want applied in your main document. The formatting of information in the data source has no effect. When you use Word's merge tool, the information merged into a main document assumes the formatting applied in that main document.

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