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Steve
 
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Default mail merge problem with Zip codes

Hey,

I have Access 2002 and Word 2002.

My problem lies with doing a mail merge from an Access file containing names
and addresses. (Yes, it's my Christmas list. I'm late again this year.
Sigh.) Anyway, for a number of my records I have a 9 digit zip code. For the
rest it's 5 digit, of course, since I live in the US. For most of these
records the 9 digit zip will emerge from mail merge as 123456789 instead of
12345-6789. Access formats it correctly and even accepts, indeed insists, on
taking just the numbers.

Is there some way to get the mailing labels to format the zip correctly? As
it is, I merge into a new document and fix the long zips manually.

TIA,

Steve