Display part of a number in Word XP

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jdawgnat - 27 May 2005 15:39 GMT

I am using Word XP to build a mailmerge letter and I am importing my
data from a ; delimited txt file. I am running into the issue with
importing because the txt file has numbers listed as 00470 and I need
it to just say 470 when I merge it into the document. Is there a way to
tell Word XP to only show the last 3 digits and not the first two?

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Graham Mayor - 27 May 2005 16:16 GMT

Toggle the merge field (ALT+F9) and add the following switch \# "#"
thus
{Mergefield Fieldname \# "#"}
This will remove the leading zeros from the number.

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> I am using Word XP to build a mailmerge letter and I am importing my
> data from a ; delimited txt file. I am running into the issue with
> importing because the txt file has numbers listed as 00470 and I need
> it to just say 470 when I merge it into the document. Is there a way
> to tell Word XP to only show the last 3 digits and not the first two?

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