You need a switch on the merge field - see
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
in this instance it would be {Mergefield fieldname \# ",$0.00"}

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> I am merging from an excel spreadsheet and have currency
> formatted values that I want to show in the document. I
> lose commas and trailing zeros after the decimal. what am
> I doing wrong? I am using WindowsXP and Ofice 2002.