Hi Peter,
Everything went pretty well except for an error in the merge in the middle
of the data source. I have a set of records that total 6010, and when I
merged the data, records 955-2242 yielded no date. Record 954 and record
2243 were fine and printed out correctly. Is it possible that those cells
are not properly formatted or could the cells themselves be corrupted in some
way?
Stuck up creek w/ no paddle
Mark
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
Hi Mark,
To fix this one in a sensible way, you would really have to separate out the
two-letter state code from the other data in your data source. What's
possible depends on where you're starting from (and just to spell it out,
I'm starting from over the large pond to the east of te U.S.A., so for
example I don't know if "WEST JORDAN" is a county in Utah or what, if you
are dealing with all the U.S. States or just UT, and so on...:-))
Peter Jamieson
"mark" wrote in message
...
Well, here we go. I have an address field that is in all upper case. If
I
change it to proper case, the second letter of the state in the address
will
be lower case
for ex. WEST JORDAN UT 84084
yields West Jordan Ut 84084
Any suggestions?
"mark" wrote:
Thanks again Peter for the quick response
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
Change
{ MERGEFIELD myamount }
to
{ MERGEFIELD myamount \#"$,0.00" }
Peter Jamieson
"mark" wrote in message
...
Thank You Peter,it worked great....I have one final question if you
can
help
me. A monetary amount is showing up as 92800. when I would like it
to
show
up as $92,800.00. Any suggestions?
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
With your Word document open, press Alt-F9 to see the field codes.
They
look
like { MERGEFIELD mydate } rather than mydate
Then type the "format switch" text after the field name and before
the
"}",
as previously suggested.
If you already have a switch that looks like "\*Mergeformat", in
most
cases
it won't do any harm to delete it.
Peter Jamieson
"mark" wrote in message
...
Where do I do the date switch...Not exactly computer saavy and
this is
driving me crazy. After the date is displayed in my docs, I see
12:00:00
AM
and I'd like to remove that from the docs
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
If you formatted it using a date/time switch in Word, what switch
did
you
use?
If you formatted it in Excel, do not expect Word to use the
formatting
you
used - try a date switch in Word, e.g. change
{ MERGEFIELD mydate }
to
{ MERGEFIELD mydate \@"MM DDD YY" }
substituting whatever format you need.
There's an "explanation" of sorts at
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk/t0003.htm
Peter Jamieson
"mark" wrote in message
...
why do I get a time along with the date when I have it
formatted to
only
show
a date