If you type them in manually they are not fields but curly bracketed text.

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Boots wrote:
i didn't. thanks for that. it works now. just out of interest why does
putting the field boundaries in with ctrl +f9 work but doesn't when
you put them in manually?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Did you use CTRL+F9 for the field boundaries?

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Boots wrote:
sorry the number is 8 digits and not 7 as i earlier stated

"Boots" wrote:

Hi Doug,
I entered what you suggested but I got a syntax error. This
what I have entered
{=(1000000 + {MERGEFIELD "Control_Num"})\# "00000000"}

the control number is actually 8 digits and not 17 as I earlier
stated so i have added an extra 0 to the =function.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Try adding 100000 to the mergefield using the following
calculation field construction

{ = (100000 + { MERGEFIELD [Access Field] }) \# "0000000" }

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"Boots" wrote in message
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I am merging from an Access database query. One of my fields is
a 7 digit number that always begins with '05'. Is it possible to
change this within word so that it is prefixed with '06' instead,
with out changing it in Access? so instead of saying 0512345 it
would say 0612345

thanks