See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Bobbie @ NPH" wrote in message
...
We are trying to create a letter using mail merge. One of the headers in
Excel is a date. It is formatted as a date in Excel to appear as "Month
dd,
yyyy."

When we insert it into the letter using mail merge, it immediately changes
it to the format "mm/dd/yyyy" (but uses the correct date listed in Excel).
I
right click the field and change the format to date and select the "month,
dd, yyyy" format. But then I only have the option of using the current
date,
the create date, or the last saved date. I can't use the original date
inserted into Excel.

Any one know why this is or how to get around it? We would really like to
be able to insert the date from Excel in the format "month dd, year."

Thanks,
Bobbie