mailmerge date wrong format

When I run the mailmerge, picking up fields from an excel spreadsheet, the
date feild display in american format. They are formated in excel as
australian and display correctly in excel. My computer is set to aussie date
format - what can I do?

See the Mail Merge and Date Fields section of the following page of fellow
MVP Graham Mayor's website:

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

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Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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"Marie" wrote in message
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When I run the mailmerge, picking up fields from an excel spreadsheet, the
date feild display in american format. They are formated in excel as
australian and display correctly in excel. My computer is set to aussie
date
format - what can I do?

Also 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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Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services on
a paid professional basis.

"Marie" wrote in message
...
When I run the mailmerge, picking up fields from an excel spreadsheet, the
date feild display in american format. They are formated in excel as
australian and display correctly in excel. My computer is set to aussie
date
format - what can I do?