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Old May 8th, 2004, 03:50 AM
David D.
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I am using Publisher 2000 (from Office 2000 Pro), under W2K.

I am printing membership cards, merging data from an Excel spreadsheet.

One of the merged text fields on the membership card is a date. How do I
control the date format on the printed cards?

When the spreadsheet had a date format of "8/4", the card printed as "August
8, 2004". I changed the spreadsheet date format to "August 4, 2004". Now
the card prints "8/4/2004". I suspect, however, that it was something else
that I did within Publisher that caused the date format results.

- David D.




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Old May 8th, 2004, 05:31 AM
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You will need to export/SAVE AS in CSV (Comma Separated Values) from Excel
and use that file as your merge file.

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Old May 11th, 2004, 04:35 PM
David D.
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Thanks. That works fine.


 




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