On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:39:46 +0100, "Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is normal and attributable to the way Word connects to Excel data - see
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

normal? er, OK... I love Microsoft's "Design Features".

thanks for the link Graham, those toggle switches ("\# 0.0" for my
particular issue) on the end of the merge field seem to have done the
trick

much obliged to you, sir.

Bill