MailMerge and Carriage Returns

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I am trying to send some formatted text to a merge field in a document. The text contains a series of lines of text, each ending with a line break character (ControlChars.Lf in Visual Basic). After the merge, the line feeds have been converted to paragraphs in Word.

I have tried this with

ControlChars.Cr
ControlChars.CrLf
ControlChars.FormFeed
ControlChars.Lf
ControlChars.NewLine

And they all get converted to a paragraph in the merged document.

How can I send just a line feed (soft return) to my merge field?

Thanks

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Hi
Thanks for your request. Please try using ControlChars.VerticalTab. See the following code:
VB

'Open template
Dim doc As Document = New Document("in.doc")
'Create array with field names and values
Dim names As String() = {"myField"}
Dim values As Object() = {"this is first line" & ControlChars.VerticalTab & "This is second line" & ControlChars.VerticalTab & "Third line"}
'Execute mail merge
doc.MailMerge.Execute(names, values)
'Save document
doc.Save("out.doc")

C#

// Open template
Document doc = new Document(@"Test198\in.doc");
// Create array wi field names and values
string[] names = { "myField" };
object[] values = { "this is first line\vThis is second line\vThird line" };
// Execute mail merge
doc.MailMerge.Execute(names, values);
// Save document
doc.Save(@"Test198\out.doc");

Hope this helps.
Best regards.