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geofbranch - 08 Nov 2005 12:21 GMT

When doing a mail-merge with Word and an Access database how do I ensure that
a date is displayed in UK format (dd/mm/yyyy)?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 08 Nov 2005 19:50 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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> When doing a mail-merge with Word and an Access database how do I ensure
> that
> a date is displayed in UK format (dd/mm/yyyy)?

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Jones the Code - 16 Jan 2006 17:46 GMT

Thank you so much. This has solved a problem which started as soon as I
moved a mail merge from Access 97/Word 97 to Access 2003/Word 2003. Under
97 the date format that I had defined in Access was preserved automatically
on mail merge, but lost when moving to 2003 versions.

> See the "Dates: day/month reversed" item under the "Connection methods"
> topic of the "Mail merge in Word 2002" section of fellow MVP Cindy
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> > that
> > a date is displayed in UK format (dd/mm/yyyy)?

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