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Not the typical date formatting issue
I have a mail merge set up to merge a date field from excel. For a while it
was working perfectly, date was coming in the right format, as a date. Now, for some unknown reason it is coming over as a date number code and I can't figure out how to fix it. I've changed the excel cell format to date so it appears as a date in excel but still comes over as a date code. Help please! Going out of my mind. |
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Not the typical date formatting issue
After playing with this for a while let me update with more information,
though I still haven't solved the problem. The mail merge is pulling the date from a spreadsheet cell with a formula, not the original data cell. After some testing, I think this may play a part in the problem but I don't know how to fix it. "mgerken79" wrote: I have a mail merge set up to merge a date field from excel. For a while it was working perfectly, date was coming in the right format, as a date. Now, for some unknown reason it is coming over as a date number code and I can't figure out how to fix it. I've changed the excel cell format to date so it appears as a date in excel but still comes over as a date code. Help please! Going out of my mind. |
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Not the typical date formatting issue
You may be able to overcome the issue if in Word, you click on the Office
Button and then on Word Options and go to the Advanced tab and scroll down to the General section of the dialog and check the box for "Confirm file format conversion on open". Then when you attach your data source to the mail merge main document, a Confirm Data Source dialog will open. Click on the Show all box on this dialog and then select the MS Excel Worksheets via DDE (*.xls) method of connection. In versions of Word before 2007, the box for the Confirmation of the file format conversion is on the General tab of the ToolsOptions dialog. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "mgerken79" wrote in message ... After playing with this for a while let me update with more information, though I still haven't solved the problem. The mail merge is pulling the date from a spreadsheet cell with a formula, not the original data cell. After some testing, I think this may play a part in the problem but I don't know how to fix it. "mgerken79" wrote: I have a mail merge set up to merge a date field from excel. For a while it was working perfectly, date was coming in the right format, as a date. Now, for some unknown reason it is coming over as a date number code and I can't figure out how to fix it. I've changed the excel cell format to date so it appears as a date in excel but still comes over as a date code. Help please! Going out of my mind. |
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Not the typical date formatting issue
So far the problem I'm having checking this solution is that when I perform
your procedure I'm not given the option to "Select Table" in which all my data is located as my spreadsheet contains multiple worksheets. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You may be able to overcome the issue if in Word, you click on the Office Button and then on Word Options and go to the Advanced tab and scroll down to the General section of the dialog and check the box for "Confirm file format conversion on open". Then when you attach your data source to the mail merge main document, a Confirm Data Source dialog will open. Click on the Show all box on this dialog and then select the MS Excel Worksheets via DDE (*.xls) method of connection. In versions of Word before 2007, the box for the Confirmation of the file format conversion is on the General tab of the ToolsOptions dialog. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "mgerken79" wrote in message ... After playing with this for a while let me update with more information, though I still haven't solved the problem. The mail merge is pulling the date from a spreadsheet cell with a formula, not the original data cell. After some testing, I think this may play a part in the problem but I don't know how to fix it. "mgerken79" wrote: I have a mail merge set up to merge a date field from excel. For a while it was working perfectly, date was coming in the right format, as a date. Now, for some unknown reason it is coming over as a date number code and I can't figure out how to fix it. I've changed the excel cell format to date so it appears as a date in excel but still comes over as a date code. Help please! Going out of my mind. |
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