numerals in a mail merge

Word 2003 on Windows XP

I have some numbers with varying numbers of decimals. I have them in Excel.
I formated them with two decimal places. When I bring them in to Word as a
data source, they are showing a larger number of decimal places in some
cases. 0.2 in Excel may come out as .200000000001, for example. ( I am
guessing at the number of zeroes)
Next, I copied the numbers and pasted them in NotePad to lose any formating
and then pasted them into a new spreadsheet. But when I bring these into a
mail merge, I am getting the same results.
What am I doing wrong? I would like all numbers to display with consistent
decimal places, preferably two.
Thank you

Thanks, but I found my help. I did a search and there was the answer, in an
word.mvps.org FAQ section!! Tried it and it worked. Life is good again.



"Stephen Larivee" wrote in message
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Word 2003 on Windows XP

I have some numbers with varying numbers of decimals. I have them in
Excel. I formated them with two decimal places. When I bring them in to
Word as a data source, they are showing a larger number of decimal places
in some cases. 0.2 in Excel may come out as .200000000001, for example.
( I am guessing at the number of zeroes)
Next, I copied the numbers and pasted them in NotePad to lose any
formating and then pasted them into a new spreadsheet. But when I bring
these into a mail merge, I am getting the same results.
What am I doing wrong? I would like all numbers to display with
consistent decimal places, preferably two.
Thank you