Date problem with mail merge Word 2002

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Andy Davis - 21 Jun 2005 06:05 GMT

I have a table of data in Access 2002 which is used as the source table for
a mail merge document using Word 2002 on my clients PC. The data is
transferred OK but I've noticed that any dates which fall between
1stday/anymonth/any year and 12thday/anymonth/any year are rearranged in the
wrong format. For example 4th July 2005 from the database would be displayed
as 07/05/2005 in the merged document. In addition blank date fields from the
source table are shown as the current date for that particular day. This
strange anomaly does not occur for any dates where the day goes beyond 12!?

However, when I run the same document and source on my own PC using Word
2003 the dates in the merged document are shown correctly and in the correct
format and blank date data is not shown. As a stab in the dark I'm using
Microsoft Word 11.0 Object library as the reference setting. Should this be
changed for Word 2002 to a lower reference? Or could there be a bug in Word
2002?

Any help or feedback would be much appreciated. At present my client would
have to check the document for all those dates <12th/month and edit them.
Obviously not very efficient.

Many thanks in advance

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Doug Robbins - 21 Jun 2005 06:42 GMT

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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>I have a table of data in Access 2002 which is used as the source table for
> a mail merge document using Word 2002 on my clients PC. The data is
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Peter Jamieson - 21 Jun 2005 06:46 GMT

There's a knowledgebase article on this subject at

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;327579

I notice that this article was updated a few months ago to say the problem
has been fixed in Word/Office XP service pack 3. Previously you had to get a
hotfix from MS Support, or modify the way that you were transferring data
between Access and Word (i.e. you could use a different connection method,
or you could for example use an Access query to reformat the date as a text
string).

Peter Jamieson

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Andy Davis - 22 Jun 2005 09:43 GMT

To all

Many, many thanks for the advice. At least I now know it wasn't me going mad
seeing the date reversed!

Dawn

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