Thanks Doug - answered the question perfectly
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
See the "Dates: day/month reversed" item under the "Connection methods"
topic of the "Mail merge in Word 2002/2003" section of fellow MVP Cindy
Meister's website at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Bill" wrote in message
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I export files from access to excel and then use them do do a mail merge
in
word.
The excel files use the ddmmyyyy format.
As soon as I select the file in word it converts the file date and all
internal dates to mmddyyyy.
How do I stop this?