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Chris Stammers - 28 Mar 2007 00:18 GMT

Hello,

I am using Word 2000 and I have ben asked if it is possible to format the
dates in a mail merge to get the 'th' or 'rd' showing after the day. I have
looked the formatting switches and there doesn't seem to be an option for
this. Is there anything I can do?

Many thanks,
Chris

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Graham Mayor - 28 Mar 2007 01:21 GMT

If you want to simply add the ordinal then it is straightforward to do with
two or three fields - { Date \@ "MMMM" } { Date \@ "d" \*ordinal }{ Date \@
", yyyy" } or
{Mergefield Date \@ "d" \*ordinal}{Mergefield Date \@ " MMMM yyyy" -
rearrange to suit local requirements.

If you want the ordinals superscripted it gets a whole lot more complicated
- see the example at http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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> Hello,
>
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> Many thanks,
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Chris Stammers - 28 Mar 2007 02:54 GMT

Thanks Graham; it does exactly what you said it would. I don't want to get
into superscripting and I don't particularly like the look of it anyway!

Thanks again,
Chris

> If you want to simply add the ordinal then it is straightforward to do with
> two or three fields - { Date \@ "MMMM" } { Date \@ "d" \*ordinal }{ Date \@
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> > Many thanks,
> > Chris

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