Thank you so much. This has solved a problem which started as soon as I
moved a mail merge from Access 97/Word 97 to Access 2003/Word 2003. Under
97 the date format that I had defined in Access was preserved automatically
on mail merge, but lost when moving to 2003 versions.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

See the "Dates: day/month reversed" item under the "Connection methods"
topic of the "Mail merge in Word 2002" section of fellow MVP Cindy
Meister's website at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"geofbranch" wrote in message
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When doing a mail-merge with Word and an Access database how do I ensure
that
a date is displayed in UK format (dd/mm/yyyy)?
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geof branch