Carry over conditional formatting

Hello - We have an Excel spread sheet that contains conditional formatting (red strike outs, highlighted cells with bolded text) being used as a data source. We have a Word document that has been mail merged to the above mentioned spread sheet and contains a chart displaying the data, currently with out the conditional formatting. We'd like to have the associated conditional formatting carry across from the spread sheet to the Word document during the mail merge. Is this possible in Word XP or Word 2003, if so can you please tell me how? Thanks in advance for your suggestions.