ZIP code problem

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Clete - 12 Nov 2007 21:13 GMT

I’m trying to do a mail merge in Word. The mail database is in Excel.

The ZIP codes are correct in Excel, but when merged into the Word document,
ZIP codes are not correct.

• when they have a leading zero, 08055 becomes 8055
• for Canadian addresses, the ZIP code always becomes 0. It should be
N6L-1A4, for example.

The ZIP codes are formatted as Special, ZIP code in Excel.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 13 Nov 2007 03:19 GMT

See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> I'm trying to do a mail merge in Word. The mail database is in Excel.
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> The ZIP codes are formatted as Special, ZIP code in Excel.

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Clete - 19 Nov 2007 15:28 GMT

Doug,

Thanks. This solved the problem for me.

Clete

> See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
> website at
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> > The ZIP codes are formatted as Special, ZIP code in Excel.

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