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Default Switch for mail merging telephone-number field

In a similar case, I used a query in Access to manipulate data into being a
percentage with no decimals. In the Word document, those fields are neither
in percent form, nor integers. Can you help via Access, or should I go to
the site you mentioned, and piddle in Word switches (which I've never done)?

Thanks in advance, Shannon

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

I would always use a query in Access to manipulate/format data, but if you
want to do it in Word,
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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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Rene" wrote in message
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How do I format a merged text field to display as a telephone number in
the
merged document. Can't find the rigth switch to add characters and
spacing.
F.e: Access source: 5128925552 -- needs to result in Word merge document
(512) 892-5552
Source: Access table, field type: Text