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my excel dates show as numbers when mailmerged



 
 
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Old May 7th, 2010, 10:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
g999999
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Default my excel dates show as numbers when mailmerged

dates in my excel work book show as numbers or american format dates when i
mailmerge documents.
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Old May 8th, 2010, 03:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Default my excel dates show as numbers when mailmerged

See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at:

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

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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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dates in my excel work book show as numbers or american format dates when
i
mailmerge documents.


 




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