See the "Dates: day/month reversed" item under the "Connection methods"
topic of the "Mail merge in Word 2002" section of fellow MVP Cindy
Meister's website at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
>I am trying to create a word document with data from database.One of the
> fields is date. The format of this date appears in the word document as
> mm/dd/yy but I need it to be in dd/mm/yy format.Can you help.Thanks