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KLR - 15 Dec 2005 12:41 GMT

I am using Microsoft Access to Mailmerge into Word, one of my fields is
a date field which displays as UK style in Access e.g. ddmmyyyy but
when the merge is complete in Word, the date is displayed US style
mmddyyyy. How do I stop this happening?

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Graham Mayor - 15 Dec 2005 12:57 GMT

Use a formatting switch on the field
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

{Mergefield datefield \@ "ddmmyyyy"}

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> I am using Microsoft Access to Mailmerge into Word, one of my fields
> is a date field which displays as UK style in Access e.g. ddmmyyyy but
> when the merge is complete in Word, the date is displayed US style
> mmddyyyy. How do I stop this happening?

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KLR - 15 Dec 2005 13:24 GMT

Brilliant, thanks very much!

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