Try this, Linda:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/m...osoft_word.htm
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~Anne Troy

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"Omega Linda" Omega wrote in message
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I was just upgraded to windows XP. When I am in a word doc and perform a
mail merge, I select the existing Excel spreadsheet and merge. What comes
thru is the whole value of my cells...for instance -3108.1355 when in
Excel I
have it formatted to be (3,108.14). I need the proper two decimal place
number with the parenthesis to appear on my mail merge.