How to correct too much decimals and date if merged from Excel?

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Stefanus - 15 Jul 2005 19:16 GMT

If I merge from Excel to a Word letter the date is only displayed as
numericals and numbers have numerous decimals. How do I correect this?

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Doug Robbins - 15 Jul 2005 20:00 GMT

See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

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

and

"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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> If I merge from Excel to a Word letter the date is only displayed as
> numericals and numbers have numerous decimals. How do I correect this?

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