In the Mail Merge main document, press Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of
the field codes and go to the field that contains the currency amount and
you will see
{ MERGEFIELD [fieldname] }
where [fieldname] is the name of the field in your data source.
Inside the closing }, insert the following switch
\# "$,0.00"
or if you have negative amounts that you want to place in parentheses, use
\# "$,0.00;($,0.00)"
so that you have
{ MERGEFIELD [fieldname] \# "$,0.00" }
or
{ MERGEFIELD [fieldname] \# "$,0.00;($,0.00)" }
Use Alt+F9 again to toggle off the display of the field codes and then
execute your merge.
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"ILoveMyCorgi" wrote in message
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I am merging quite a bit of data and the fields that have currency are
not
formatting correctly. The merge takes place inside a table cell and some
format without the dollar sign. I have changed the formatting to number
with
two decimal places and when I merge I get lots of zeroes after the
decimal
ending in 3. What am I doing wrong????? This is driving me crazy!