Hello, 
i am working on a little DocVariable based template and i was unable 
to find any answer on the "possibility" of the following:

I created my DOCVARIABLE Field (actually many of them)
I have no problems using vba to add them to my document and manage them
and update their value & al

Now my issue lies here.

While i found out that using  \* CHARFORMAT switch in my field code i can 
modify the font and style of my field and its persistant thru update (when 
you applies the font and style to the first character of the {[D]OCVARIABLE 
"varname" \* CHARFORMAT}, its pretty neat but what if i would like to use 
field for scientific notation 

lets say my field is named watermolecule and the value is H2O, is it 
possible to set 2 as superscript?

I found out that if i set the D to superscript then my value H2O will be all 
superscript.

I know that i can use the "ascii" code 0178 to get 2 in "superscript" but my 
goal objective contain many others number and caracter in superscript or 
subscript and different format for some part of the string in value ex: value 
= BOLD{Mr} NORMAL{James b.} 

or Msuperscript{e} BOLD{Jack Brown}

etc etc.

Any help would be appreciated.

The charformat switch applies the format applied to at least the first 
character of the field - so you could apply the format to the whole field - 
which in effect is what occurs. You cannot format only part of a field. You 
would either have to use a combination of fields or use vba to convert the 
field to text and format it as you require.

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"Eric L" <Eric L@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> Hello,
> i am working on a little DocVariable based template and i was unable
> to find any answer on the "possibility" of the following:
>
> I created my DOCVARIABLE Field (actually many of them)
> I have no problems using vba to add them to my document and manage them
> and update their value & al
>
> Now my issue lies here.
>
> While i found out that using  \* CHARFORMAT switch in my field code i can
> modify the font and style of my field and its persistant thru update (when
> you applies the font and style to the first character of the 
> {[D]OCVARIABLE
> "varname" \* CHARFORMAT}, its pretty neat but what if i would like to use
> field for scientific notation
>
> lets say my field is named watermolecule and the value is H2O, is it
> possible to set 2 as superscript?
>
> I found out that if i set the D to superscript then my value H2O will be 
> all
> superscript.
>
> I know that i can use the "ascii" code 0178 to get 2 in "superscript" but 
> my
> goal objective contain many others number and caracter in superscript or
> subscript and different format for some part of the string in value ex: 
> value
> = BOLD{Mr} NORMAL{James b.}
>
> or Msuperscript{e} BOLD{Jack Brown}
>
> etc etc.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>