Hello,
I am merging from an Access phone/address database. In
Access I am using an input mask to make the phone numbers
look like, well, phone numbers. But when I merge them to
Word, the formating (dashes and spaces) disappear.
Any help to get the numbers in Word formatted would be
greatly appreciated!
Oh, also, I found another post addressing this issue and
it said to add a switch such as the following:
{ MERGEFIELD PhoneNum \# "(###) ###'-'####" }
I am not overly familiar with how to use switches, and I
am also not sure of the brackets used above vs the small
double < and > that surround inserted merge fields, but I
did experiment with it and could not get it to work.
Again, THANKS!
Joe
Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 26 May 2004 12:44 GMT
Press Alt+F9 and your mergefield that is in << >> will be displayed as a
field code of the form
{ MERGEFIELD PhoneNum }
Note, the exact name of your data field will depend on the name of the field
in the Access table/query
Add the formatting switch inside the closing }
Press Alt+F9 again to toggle off the field codes.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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