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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"Rotor-blade" wrote in message
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When I mailmerge to a word document, the date format changes from
dd/mm/yyyy
to mm/dd/yyyy can this be prevented? Ihave tried various date
combinations
in the Access Db Design. It makes no difference. Any suggestions please?