Merge fields inherit tab & paragraph settings?

[bdarch]

Merge fields inherit font formats. Can they inherit changes in the paragraph formats, specifically tab settings?

Our intention is to print complex (and changing) text-intensive layouts by concatenating a record's text fields into a single merge field. But we can't do this if tab settings specific to that record won't transfer.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Vaughan]

Character and paragraph formatting are not "carried through" calculations in FMP 6 and earlier. All formatting is lost.

Character formatting is supported in FMP 7. If you are doing anything text intensive as you suggest, do it in FMP 7.

[bdarch]

vaughan - not what I wanted to hear, but thank you very much! I'll limp along with 5.5 for now....