is there any way to display part of a mergefield

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thecornman - 16 Nov 2005 12:26 GMT

Is there any way to select only part of a mailmerge field to display?
e.g. the merge field displays a date and time in the following format
16/11/05 12:00:00
what I want to do is separate the date and time and change their format.
I am stuck with the way the original mergefield is formatted because it
comes from a third party.

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Graham Mayor - 16 Nov 2005 15:00 GMT

If you have access to the merge document then it doesn't matter who created
it. Toggle the merge field and add a formatting switch eg {Mergefield
fieldname \@ "d MMM yyyy"}

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> Is there any way to select only part of a mailmerge field to display?
> e.g. the merge field displays a date and time in the following format
> 16/11/05 12:00:00
> what I want to do is separate the date and time and change their
> format. I am stuck with the way the original mergefield is formatted
> because it comes from a third party.

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