See the "Dates: day/month reversed" item under the "Connection methods"
topic of the "Mail merge in Word 2002" section of fellow MVP Cindy
Meister's website at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm


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Hope this helps.

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"hannab2005" wrote in message
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Ok to me it is all gibberish, Is there a simple way of setting this up? I
am
not a programmer, all the information provided unfortunatly did not help
me
as I did not understand what needed to be done. Thank you anyway.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Use a formatting switch -
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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Hannab2005 wrote:
How do I stop my mail merge from automatically changing any dates of
birth to the US format (11/26/85 instead of 26/11/85) Please help!

Hannah