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Old May 4th, 2005, 10:18 AM
Rick Boon
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How can I retain the Access format in a word merge document?

i.e data format in Access is 'Currency' when merged to Word the currency
format is lost. same applys to 'Date' formats.
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Old May 4th, 2005, 10:49 AM
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Use formatting switches in the Word field for the simplest approach -
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
If you want the more complicated approach see the Excel data section of
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm (the issues and
workarounds are the same for Access).
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Rick Boon wrote:
How can I retain the Access format in a word merge document?

i.e data format in Access is 'Currency' when merged to Word the
currency format is lost. same applys to 'Date' formats.



 




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