See the Mail Merge and Date Fields section of the following page of fellow
MVP Graham Mayor's website:
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
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"Marie" wrote in message
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When I run the mailmerge, picking up fields from an excel spreadsheet, the
date feild display in american format. They are formated in excel as
australian and display correctly in excel. My computer is set to aussie
date
format - what can I do?