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 mail merge some start dates, when it previews in Word, any
> date prior to the 13th of the month uses the American format. Is there any
> way to overcome this?