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Susan May Susan May is offline
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Default How do I use field codes to format a number into currency?

Peter - I just checked my code and I guess with all my queries out there last
Friday, I must have found the right syntax because I have the # sign in there
now.

Thanks so much for the clarification. I was so happy to see that it worked
before I went home on Friday. Love it when things work.

Again, thanks everybody for all your continued support. I don't know what
I'd do without my MS Tech group.

Susan May

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

As posted, there is a "#" missing from your field code - you have

{MERGEFIELD "Sale" \"$,0.00; ($,0.00)"}

and you need

{MERGEFIELD "Sale" \#"$,0.00; ($,0.00)"}


Peter Jamieson

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Susan May wrote:
Doug - I just tried to do this and it didn't work. My field codes look like
this

{MERGEFIELD "Sale" \"$,0.00; ($,0.00)"} and it doesn't change the format of
the number that I'm importing from Excel. What am I doing wrong?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Press Alt+F9 to reveal the field codes and insert

\# "$,0.00;($,0.00)"

before the closing }



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"Andrea" wrote in message
...
I would like to format my numbers in a mail merge to be shown as Currency
so
with $ and 2 decimals. I know I can do this with a field code but can't
get
it to work.