{includetext] help?

[simoncarter]

Hello,

I have written a documnet which updates its fields from a external txt file.

Example
'The {includetext "c:\temp.txt" \ *mergeformat} and blah blah'

When I update the field above, it puts a hard carrage return before the and blah blah bit

Does anyone know how to stop it doing this?

I want the sentance to update without the hard carrage return being put in the middle of the sentance.

The temp.txt file has no extra lines in, its just one word.

[lucas]

Hard to tell without knowing how your inserting it......not mindreaders ya know. Post your file.

[Norie]

Perhaps it's the data that's the problem?

[fumei]

The file c:\temp.txt has a paragraph mark at the end. As they all do, as far as Word is concerned.

You are not including text with this...you are including a file.

Even a single word has a paragraph mark at the end of the file.

Sorry, but there is no way out of this. ALL files brought in as files with INCLUDETEXT will have a paragraph mark at the end.

Unfortunately, if it IS a plain text file, you can not make a bookmark of the word. Other wise, you could use:

INCLUDETEXT "c:\temp.doc" "bookmark" \* MERGEFORMAT

Then only what is in the bookmark will be brought in.

If it is a file with no bookmark specified, you will always get a paragraph mark.

I want the sentance to update without the hard carrage return being put in the middle of the sentance.It can not be done without using a bookmark.