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Mailmerging from Excel with dates
How can I specify UK date format in mailmerged letters from an Excel
Database? In the column containing the date I have specified the UK format, but on merging the date reverts to US. |
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Mailmerging from Excel with dates
Between Word 2000 and Word 2002 (Office XP), Microsoft changed the way Word
links to external data sources. By default, Word 2002 and 2003 use OLEDB, which does not preserve numeric formatting in Excel worksheets. There are two ways around this: 1. You can choose to connect to Excel using DDE as before. To do this, you must check the box for "Confirm conversion at Open" on the General tab of Tools | Options in Word. Then, when you select the data source, you will be given a choice of connection method, and you can choose DDE. Although this preserves number formatting, it does not, I believe preserve double-byte Unicode characters, so it can be a bit of a trade-off. 2. You can use a "numeric picture switch" (\# switch) to format the merge field. For more on this, see Word's Help topic "Numeric Picture (\#) field switch" and this article: http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "CC" wrote in message ... How can I specify UK date format in mailmerged letters from an Excel Database? In the column containing the date I have specified the UK format, but on merging the date reverts to US. |
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