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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> When mail merging from either an Access or Excell datafile, the date
> format
> switches to US format on the Word 2003 mailmerge, even though it has been
> set
> up as ddmmyyyy in either Access or Excel.