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When I mail merge to a document the Date of birth field becomes American
formatted ie mm/dd/yyyy I would like to have dd/mm/yyyy - please can you
tell me how to correct this

Thanks

Ed
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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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When I mail merge to a document the Date of birth field becomes American
formatted ie mm/dd/yyyy I would like to have dd/mm/yyyy - please can you
tell me how to correct this

Thanks

Ed



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