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HelenR128 - 22 Sep 2004 11:51 GMT
When using an Excel spreadsheet as a data source for mail merge in Word, the
date format changes from dd/mm/yyyy to mm/dd/yyyy in the Word document.  The
cells are formatted correctly and my regional settings in Control Panel are
OK.

I did not have this problem using previous versions of Office.
Doug Robbins - 23 Sep 2004 00:30 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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