Unable to mail merge $ figures ending in zero

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Clancy B - 05 Apr 2005 19:33 GMT

I am trying to do a mail merge on a contract that I need to pull currency
figures from Access database. However, when I try it leaves the any zeros to
the right of the decimal point off and will not pull the dollar sign. Such as
$1.50 merges as 1.5 and $0.20 appears as 0.2. I have tried it in access as
text and the same thing happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Peter Jamieson - 06 Apr 2005 10:04 GMT

Use a date format switch - Use Alt-F9 to see the underlying fields in Word
and modify

{ MERGEFIELD mydate }

to, e.g.

{ MERGEFIELD mydate \#"$,0.00" }

Peter Jamieson

>I am trying to do a mail merge on a contract that I need to pull currency
> figures from Access database. However, when I try it leaves the any zeros
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> $1.50 merges as 1.5 and $0.20 appears as 0.2. I have tried it in access as
> text and the same thing happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Graham Mayor - 06 Apr 2005 12:51 GMT

Date switch? ;)

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

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> Use a date format switch - Use Alt-F9 to see the underlying fields in
> Word and modify
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>> access as text and the same thing happens. Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.

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