You need a date formatting switch on the field
\@ "d MMM yy"
see
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
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Granpinto wrote:
I use mail merge to create forms but I can't get the date to display
correctly. Its shows "29/12/05 00:00:00" instead of "29 Dec 05"...any
ideas??