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smk23 - 29 Aug 2005 22:59 GMT

This is a real newbie question: I have things like SSN and phone numbers I
want to put in a mail merge document. These are stored without dashes in the
database. Is it possible to indicate the usual formatting with dashes in the
Word document?

Thanks so much.

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Doug Robbins - 30 Aug 2005 05:34 GMT

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

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

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> This is a real newbie question: I have things like SSN and phone numbers I
> want to put in a mail merge document. These are stored without dashes in
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> Thanks so much.

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Graham Mayor - 30 Aug 2005 06:09 GMT

Use a number formatting switch - see
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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> This is a real newbie question: I have things like SSN and phone
> numbers I want to put in a mail merge document. These are stored
> without dashes in the database. Is it possible to indicate the usual
> formatting with dashes in the Word document?
>
> Thanks so much.

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