date format

I have formatted my dates in the underlying MSAccess file as "Short" -
mm/dd/yyyy -- which is what I want.. When the dates come through to the
merged Word document they look like this: yyyy-mm-dd 00:00:00

How does one control the date format.
Thank you.
L Calaway

Louise Calaway wrote:
I have formatted my dates in the underlying MSAccess file as "Short" -
mm/dd/yyyy -- which is what I want.. When the dates come through to the
merged Word document they look like this: yyyy-mm-dd 00:00:00

How does one control the date format.
Thank you.
L Calaway


See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

or, use the Format() function in an Access query to convert the date to
text in the format that you want and use the query as the data source.

Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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