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Dave - 24 Jul 2004 21:26 GMT

I am using MS-Word 2002 and importing data into a form
letter from an MS-Access 2000 database query. I have the
date format in the database (table, form, query and
report) set to "short date". When the field is merged
into the form letter, MS-Word converts the short date
into the "general date" format. How can I resolve this
problem?

example:
database date format = mm/dd/yy
word displays as: yyyy-mm-dd 00:00:00

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dave

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Peter Jamieson - 25 Jul 2004 00:36 GMT

If you're inserting the date using a MERGEFIELD field, use e.g.

{ MERGEFIELD mydate \@"MM/DD/YY" }

If you're inserting the date in a column in a DATABASE field, you will
probably need to use a function such as format() in the Query SQL to convert
the date to the string value you need.

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Graham Mayor - 25 Jul 2004 06:00 GMT

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

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