My apologies ..... for some reason I thought this was an
Access newsgroup. My previous answer has no relevence to
Word mailmerge.

My apologies again,

Terry

-----Original Message-----
Zachary,

I always treat zip codes (called postcodes here) as text
and store them in a text field. We use 4 digit zip codes
and after importing, query the input field with a len
([postcode]) and a criteria of 4. Base an update query
on
this and update to "0"&[postcode]. Run the update query
until no more rows need updating.

HTH,

Terry


-----Original Message-----
I am experiencing the exact same situation as Richard
originally wrote on
2/4/05. When merging zip codes, leading zero is dropped
on 5 digit zip code;
10 digit with leading zero works fine.
Additional background-
1. My data source is provided in html format.
2. In data source, zip codes can be either be 5 digit or
10 digit (9 digit
plus the '-' in between zip and 4 ext. The '-' cannot be
easily removed)

Went to gmayor.com as suggested in several postings. The
\# "00000" switch
works great if the data source has 5 digit zip codes
only. In my case, If a
10 digit zip is passed in, then the formatting treat it
like a subtraction
calculation. So 12345-6789 ends up as '05556' and 01234-
5678 ends up as
'-04444'

I tried different variations on the swith syntax with no
luck. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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Zachary
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