Try rounding the data in Excel (unless you are actually paying people in
increments of less than a penny). What you are currently doing is altering
the display while leaving the underlying number untouched.

You can also apply a picture (format) to your merge field. If your hourly
rate in Excel, though, is a calculated field, you do really want to apply
the Round function to your result or you can get spreadsheet calculation
errors that are not apparent.
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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Sherry" wrote in message
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I am doing a mail merge from an Excel document. The
field in the document is an hourly salary amount, so it
is formatted as a number with 2 decimals. When I set up
the merge to Word, however, it shows the field as having
15 decimals. I cannot change the format once it is in
Word. I have tried using several different formats while
it is still in Excel, before the merge, including a
custom format, but no matter how it shows formatted in
Excel, when it is merged into Word the 15 decimal places
appear. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Sherry
Rome, Georgia