[macropod]

Hi Black Doctor,

The lower-case 'm's in your formatting switch are for minutes - months require 'M's. Try:
{ MERGEFIELD "Date1" \@ "d MMMM yyyy"}
After pressing Alt-F9 to toggle the code display off, press F9 to update the displayed results.

Cheers

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macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Black Doctor" Black wrote in message ...
| I am using Excel & Word 2003. I have tried to format the merge fields in my
| document without success. For example, I want the date to read 1 December
| 2007. After I press Alt+F9, my 'date' field is as follows : { MERGEFIELD
| "Date1" } so I changed it to read { MERGEFIELD "Date1" \@ "d mmmm yyy"} - but
| when I hit Alt+F9 again it doesn't change the format. What am I doing wrong?