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
"-cg" wrote in message
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I m doing a mailmerge that includes addresses.
I've read the Numeric Picture (\#) field switch, and it gave a lot of good
ideas. But when I try, my zipcodes are often converted to dates. I also
see
that my leading 0 is dropped, and my 5+4 zips that have a dash are
processed
by subtracting.
They are stored in my excel file in cells with Text format.
Thanks,
-cg