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Old May 6th, 2004, 04:11 PM
FrankZ
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Default Field formatting during mail merge

I am using an Excel spreadsheet as the datasource for
batting avg, etc. How can I control the format of the
merged fields to show as 9.999%? Currently a 1.000
average shows as 1 and a 0.666 average shows as
0.666666666. The source fields in the spreadsheet are
already formatted to 3 decimal places. Thanks!
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Old May 7th, 2004, 12:36 AM
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Default Field formatting during mail merge

Add a \# "0.000%" formatting switch inside the closing } that is displayed
when you toggle on the field codes using Alt+F9

You may need to use a construction such as { = { MERGEFIELD "Average" } *
100 \# "0.000%" } or some other multiplier to get the correct percentage.

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I am using an Excel spreadsheet as the datasource for
batting avg, etc. How can I control the format of the
merged fields to show as 9.999%? Currently a 1.000
average shows as 1 and a 0.666 average shows as
0.666666666. The source fields in the spreadsheet are
already formatted to 3 decimal places. Thanks!


 




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