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Doug Robbins - Word MVP Doug Robbins - Word MVP is offline
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Default US date format in word 7.0 mail merge

See the "Dates: day/month reversed" item under the "Connection methods"
topic of the "Mail merge in Word 2002/2003" section of fellow MVP Cindy
Meister's website at:

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm


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William Howard wrote in message
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I've had exactly the same problem as Michelle. I don't know if she or her
sister found the solution, but I'd like it too. I also checked my
Regional settings and everything looked fine in the Works database file
and then 10 Jan 2009 came out as 1-10-2009 which in Britain means October
1st!

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