Hi Doug

Many thanks for this fix. I am indebted to you!!

Cheers
Mark

Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:

From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab
and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. Then when
you attach the data source to the main document, select DDE as the method by
which you want the connection to be made.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"MarkM" wrote in message
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Hi

I'm mail merging from Excel into a Word template and find that some of
the fields are showing up in Word as 12:00:00 AM. This has happened to
me before and I put a test row in with cells of 256 characters in each
cell which overcame this. Now on a new data sheet it doesn't. I notice
on my Excel that the cells that don't work have no format - ie. in
format cells they are under General formatting but the sample shows as
#########. And I cannot get the sample to view this as text....

Help......