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Getting th £ character to displa    y right up to the number in MMer    ge

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Pete Rooney - 16 Nov 2007 16:51 GMT
Good afternoon,
I am merging an Excel database containing numbers formatted to currency, two
decimel places with comma separator.
When I merge this data, I use the following:

{MERGEFIELD "Arrears" /#"£#,##0.00" }

Howwever, whilst £1,234.00, is displayed correctly, £62" is displayed
"£  62.00", "£123.45" is displayed "£ 123.45" etc. In other words, the £
character is frozen in place and the numbers shunt to the right depending on
their size.
Is there any way to make sure that the £ is always immediately to the left
of the first numeric character?

Thanks in advance & have a good weekend

Pete
Peter Jamieson - 16 Nov 2007 17:08 GMT
Try

{ MERGEFIELD "Arrears" /#"£,0.00" }

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> I am merging an Excel database containing numbers formatted to currency,
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Graham Mayor - 17 Nov 2007 06:36 GMT
I think you'll find more success with  { MERGEFIELD "Arrears" \#"£,0.00" }
;)

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Peter Jamieson - 18 Nov 2007 21:04 GMT
Thanks again, Graham!

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>I think you'll find more success with  { MERGEFIELD "Arrears" \#"£,0.00" }
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Pete Rooney - 19 Nov 2007 09:22 GMT
Graham,

Thank you very much - how on earth did you figure THIS out? :-)

Regards

Pete

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Graham Mayor - 19 Nov 2007 11:25 GMT
See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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