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Graham Mayor
 
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Default How do I format a phone number in a mail merge field?

Did you update the field after adding the switch?

In your merge source document insert the phone number field. It will look
something like
phone
Right click and toggle the display. It will now look like
{Mergefield Phone}
Add the switch this
{Mergefield Phone \# "(###) ###'-'####"}
Press F9 to update
then toggle the display back again (if it has not already done so.)
Execute the merge to a new document.
Voila!

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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AnhVu wrote:
I tried to do like that. But No effect!!! Why?
First I merge from Word then I click in {...} I add \# .... and
nothing happend.
I tried to visit your web and tried every example. And no one
effect.Please help me. What step I wrong?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

{Mergefield Phone \# "(###) ###'-'####"}
see also http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Halley wrote:
I tried the following, and it did nothing. I tried a few other
variations, but they all gave me errors.

{ MERGEFIELD "PHONE" \"(###) ###-####"}