How do I display the correct date format when merging from Access?

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Granpinto - 29 Dec 2005 08:06 GMT

I use mail merge to create forms but I can't get the date to display
correctly. Its shows "29/12/05 00:00:00" instead of "29 Dec 05"...any ideas??

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Graham Mayor - 29 Dec 2005 10:34 GMT

You need a date formatting switch on the field

\@ "d MMM yy"

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

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> I use mail merge to create forms but I can't get the date to display
> correctly. Its shows "29/12/05 00:00:00" instead of "29 Dec 05"...any
> ideas??

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