Try using a ROUND function in Excel. What you have now is simply changing
the display in Excel but not the underlying number which is 2.609999.
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"Lou Griffith" Lou wrote in message
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2.61 becomes 2.609999 when merging from Excel into Word.
I have tried to re-format several ways in Excel (number, general,
currency,
etc).

no luck...please help if familiar
thanks in advance
lou