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Wolfman - 21 Jun 2004 12:07 GMT

Guys,

I have an Access database and one field is Date sent. It's set up in the format dd/mm/yyyy. When I mail merge to Word the date is changed back to mm/dd/yyyy when my client prefers it the other way. How can I set it so Word keeps it in the format of dd/mm/yyyy?

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Ash.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 21 Jun 2004 15:59 GMT

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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benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> Guys,
>
> I have an Access database and one field is Date sent. It's set up in the format dd/mm/yyyy. When I mail merge to Word the date is changed back to

mm/dd/yyyy when my client prefers it the other way. How can I set it so Word
keeps it in the format of dd/mm/yyyy?

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