With your cusror in the offending field, right click and toggle field codes.
The field will change from something like
mydate to {Mergefield Mydate}
Before the final bracket add the switch eg

{Mergefield Mydate \@ "dd/MM/yy"}
With the cursor still in the field, press F9 and the field will update and
revert to the previous display and your date should be corrected.

This is not programming nor rocket science, but the basic tools of mail
merge.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



hannab2005 wrote:
Ok to me it is all gibberish, Is there a simple way of setting this
up? I am not a programmer, all the information provided unfortunatly
did not help me as I did not understand what needed to be done.
Thank you anyway.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Use a formatting switch -
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Hannab2005 wrote:
How do I stop my mail merge from automatically changing any dates of
birth to the US format (11/26/85 instead of 26/11/85) Please help!

Hannah