Mail Merge Field Formatting

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Janet - 04 Aug 2004 23:20 GMT

I've created a mail merge document using Word XP and an
Excel spreadsheet. One of the fields is a date field. In
the spreadsheet this field is formatted at March 14,
2001. When it is merged to the Word document, the date is
displayed at 03/14/2001. Is there any way to retain the
formatting from the spreadsheet into the word document?

Any and all help greatly appreciated!

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Doug Robbins - 05 Aug 2004 00:20 GMT

See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

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

You may also need to 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've created a mail merge document using Word XP and an
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Janet - 05 Aug 2004 01:53 GMT

Your help is much appreciated. This works great!

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