I am importing contacts information form Act. I need to mention a date in the past.
When imported, the date format is so: 20031128
How do I transform this into Friday, November 28 2003
I tried all I could find on this forum like \@ "d MMMM yyyy" but nothing seems to work.

I am using Office 95. Over the years, I have used Word
7.0's electronic mail merge capability to send
personalized form emails to members of a small
organization of which I am Chair.  I am *not* spamming.

Using Ms Word Office XP to generate Avery 8160 mail
labels, I get only one of two pages.  Using MS Word 2000
WIN 98 and same source document, I get both pages.
What might the problem be with XP?

I am trying to mail merge addresses from an Exel spreadsheet on to envelopes using the mail merge function in Word.  Everything works fine, but I am getting a decimal in the postal (zip) code field and I can't get rid of it.  I have the cells in the column in Exel formatted as ...

I was going to create a letter that goes to some people in
my group andI want to use mail merge.  I also want to
create a leabel.  How can I create a label with specific
size, and how does the mail merge work on labels?

How do I stop merge letters from printing a blank
separator page between every letter in a merge job?  
Thanks.

I'm trying to automate a Word (97) Mailmerge from Excel. My data source is within Excel (97) and the letter is in Word. Can anyone help me with the code for this? (i.e. Click on a button in excel, then excel launches word and the data source merges with the letter)
**I've tried ...

Trouble with barcode that print {BARCIDE ENV_ZIPCODE1\b\u}
but does not the actual barcodes needed for post office
reading. spent 4 days trying to figure this out.
Also, wish to print page of different address not the

I am using the old windows (98).  I am useing some yes/no
options in Access (letter 1: Y; L2: N; L3: Y).  Now I want
to print the addresses of all clients who selected yes for
letter 1.  I can not figure out how to filter the no's

I have encountered a mail merge error, in which the error refers to a
missing mergefield in the data stream. On examination this data field is not
visible in word via the find command, however if the "template" is opened up
in notepad the field name can be seen.

I know that you CAN NOT use word to figure out a correct
POSTNET barcode using the address / zip field
combination.  I am now using the Delivery point field
with the Zip code field for my {BARCODE "field DP Field

When we send out emails using the mail merge in Word (we
have Office XP and outlook express 6) we get an error
message reading "a program is attempting to send the
following email message on our behalf". We have to hit

I would like to merge data from an Excel spreadsheet into
MS Word labels.  I have taken the following steps in Word:
1)  Tools, MailMerge
2)  Create, Mailing Labels

Using Word 97 SR-2
I received a document which is trying to include a .gif
picture located on a web site.  When I open the word
document, the .gif object appears correctly.  When I go to

I am sure I am missing something here.
I am doing address labels in Word 2000.
When I close the Mail Merge Helper it creates the template showing the field
names and positions for the whole page. If I want to edit the layout it