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TC - 29 Dec 2004 16:40 GMT

I have a rather extensive document full of mergefields,
all of which are working. However, I am having a problem
with my date field codes. I have 2 instances of this
mergefield: { TIME \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" } and 2 instances
of this one: { TIME \@ "MM" }. In both cases, the first
instance works in the merged document and second instance
shows the field code exactly as typed above instead of
the date.

Any ideas? I have tried everything. Is this a bug?

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Graham Mayor - 29 Dec 2004 16:56 GMT

Are the field boundaries entered with CTRL+F9 or simply typed? If the
latter, change to the former.

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> I have a rather extensive document full of mergefields,
> all of which are working. However, I am having a problem
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> Any ideas? I have tried everything. Is this a bug?

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- 29 Dec 2004 17:17 GMT

They were correct. I completely re-did them to check and
got the same result.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 29 Dec 2004 22:17 GMT

Use Alt+F9 a couple of times to ensure that the display of all fields codes
is suppressed, or select the problem one and use Shift+F9 to toggle off the
display of field codes for it alone.

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>I have a rather extensive document full of mergefields,
> all of which are working. However, I am having a problem
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> Any ideas? I have tried everything. Is this a bug?

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