Thanks.  I did figure that out finally.

Sue
On May 12, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Tim Mansour wrote:

> On 13/05/2011, at 3:56, Sue <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> The text looks like what I want, but then when I try my Substitute  
>> script--the substitute doesn't work
>
>
> ... Because it's not the font *style* you need to affect, but rather
> the case of the characters. Think of it this way: if you applied Bold
> to certain words then exported a Merge file, you wouldn't end up with
> any Bold text, because the style information isn't exported. Any
> styles applied to the text, including Bold, Underline, Title Case,
> etc, do not affect the character content of the field.
>
> On the other hand, the text-manipulation functions Lower(), Upper()
> and Proper() DO change the case of characters so you could replace
> field contents using Proper() before applying your Substitute command
> to abbreviate.
>
>
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