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Sue - 16 Oct 2003 22:52 GMT

Word and Access97

I have an Access database as a source for merged documents
in Word. I cannot get Word to format the numbers with
commas and decimal places. This is what I have tried but
it doesn't work:
{MERGEFIELD TotalDue \@"#,##0.00"}
Any ideas?
Thank you all

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 18 Oct 2003 09:04 GMT

Hi Sue,

Use \# instead of \@

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> Word and Access97
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> Any ideas?
> Thank you all

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