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Andy Davis
 
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Default Date problem with mail merge Word 2002

I have a table of data in Access 2002 which is used as the source table for
a mail merge document using Word 2002 on my clients PC. The data is
transferred OK but I've noticed that any dates which fall between
1stday/anymonth/any year and 12thday/anymonth/any year are rearranged in the
wrong format. For example 4th July 2005 from the database would be displayed
as 07/05/2005 in the merged document. In addition blank date fields from the
source table are shown as the current date for that particular day. This
strange anomaly does not occur for any dates where the day goes beyond 12!?

However, when I run the same document and source on my own PC using Word
2003 the dates in the merged document are shown correctly and in the correct
format and blank date data is not shown. As a stab in the dark I'm using
Microsoft Word 11.0 Object library as the reference setting. Should this be
changed for Word 2002 to a lower reference? Or could there be a bug in Word
2002?

Any help or feedback would be much appreciated. At present my client would
have to check the document for all those dates 12th/month and edit them.
Obviously not very efficient.

Many thanks in advance