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minguier@yahoo.co.uk - 29 Sep 2005 17:39 GMT

I am running a mail merge from Excel to Word including a series of
dates. My dates are displayed as 19/07/2005 in Excel (UK format) but
in my merged Word document appear as 7/19/2005. How can change the
format of my dates so that the correct format appears in my Word
document?

Elena

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Dawn Crosier - 29 Sep 2005 17:47 GMT

See this article: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/index.htm
for help.

Let us know if you still need help.

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I am running a mail merge from Excel to Word including a series
of
dates. My dates are displayed as 19/07/2005 in Excel (UK format)
but
in my merged Word document appear as 7/19/2005. How can change
the
format of my dates so that the correct format appears in my Word
document?

Elena

Reply to this Message