You should not have the parentheses.

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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"Art" wrote in message
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I am using the following numeric picture switch with a mailmerge field:

(\# $X,XX0.00)

The mailmerge result always includes the closing ) in the merge result.
How
do I eliminate this?