Could someone please help with date format in directory? I've looked through
other postings and referred to the various links but my problem does not
quite fit in!

I help a charity with database work.  The charity seeks sponsors for 3rd
World children.
Some sponsors support more than one child. Some children have more than one
sponsor - and therein lies the problem.

We have a database with all the information about the sponsors and the
children.
We need to create an updatable list for creating printing records for which
I have created a mailmerge directory in Word 2002

An excerpt from the columns:

Child's Ref. No.        Child's Name            Date of Birth

In each column I have to insert fields for Child 1, Child 2 and Child 3. So
the merge field for Date of Birth are:

{MERGEFIELD "Childs_date_of_birth_1"}{MERGEFIELD
"Childs_date_of_birth_2"}{MERGEFIELD "Childs_date_of_birth_3"}

I have managed to insert switches in order to remove the time of birth for
every child being midnight (!) and also prevent the Americanisation of the
date.

Everything works well if there is more than one child. If there is ONLY one
child, Word inserts today's date underneath the merged date.

So I have:  (I've changed names and dates for confidentiality)

Child's Name            Date of Birth

Din                            03/11/1995

                                 24/02/2005

Nyn Ti                       19/03/1987

                                 24/02/2005

Trn Ti An                  29/04/1988

U  Thi Han Nga        20/09/1993

Please can somebody help me get rid of the current date?

Many thanks in anticipation.

Gillian