Am using Office 2003. I have a mail-merge letter which is designed to get
data from an .xls file. I am writing thank-you letters and consequently there
is an "Amount" field which has currency data - e.g. $25.00. When the amount
comes over into the merge letter it appears as "25". I suppose I can remedy
this by putting"$Amount.00" but this hardly seems very elegant. Is there
another way to fix this?

Thanks for any help.

Mary

See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm


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"sweeneysmsm" wrote in message
...
Am using Office 2003. I have a mail-merge letter which is designed to get
data from an .xls file. I am writing thank-you letters and consequently
there
is an "Amount" field which has currency data - e.g. $25.00. When the
amount
comes over into the merge letter it appears as "25". I suppose I can
remedy
this by putting"$Amount.00" but this hardly seems very elegant. Is there
another way to fix this?

Thanks for any help.

Mary

Thank you so much. Yes, I put in the switches. I can't say that I feel the
process is "friendly", but we do what we have to do.

Thank you again.

Mary

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm


--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"sweeneysmsm" wrote in message
...
Am using Office 2003. I have a mail-merge letter which is designed to get
data from an .xls file. I am writing thank-you letters and consequently
there
is an "Amount" field which has currency data - e.g. $25.00. When the
amount
comes over into the merge letter it appears as "25". I suppose I can
remedy
this by putting"$Amount.00" but this hardly seems very elegant. Is there
another way to fix this?

Thanks for any help.

Mary