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Have date in my Excel doc that changes to today's date.
I have a date that I use to send the letters out and I set the letters up a
month in advance. When I am doing the mail merge the date that is set to the Excel is being changed to today's date that I am creating it. Is there a way that I can get it to stay at the right date that I have set? Thanks |
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What field code are you using to insert your date?
(Use Alt-F9 to see the underlying field code). It should look something like { MERGEFIELD "the name of the date column in Excel" \*Mergeformat } Also, which version of Word/Excel? Peter Jamieson Wartburg College" Wartburg wrote in message ... I have a date that I use to send the letters out and I set the letters up a month in advance. When I am doing the mail merge the date that is set to the Excel is being changed to today's date that I am creating it. Is there a way that I can get it to stay at the right date that I have set? Thanks |
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I am using Office XP. Word and Excel are both XP. I have formatted the cell
in Excell to print out the month (August). When I merge into a Word document, the date is today's date. The field code is MERGEFIELD date. The date is then changed in to mm/dd/yy format. Not the mmmm/d/yyyy that I would like with the month spelled all the way out. The currency is also being changed into $52.0100000000001 not just $52.01 like I Have it set up to be. "Peter Jamieson" wrote: What field code are you using to insert your date? (Use Alt-F9 to see the underlying field code). It should look something like { MERGEFIELD "the name of the date column in Excel" \*Mergeformat } Also, which version of Word/Excel? Peter Jamieson Wartburg College" Wartburg wrote in message ... I have a date that I use to send the letters out and I set the letters up a month in advance. When I am doing the mail merge the date that is set to the Excel is being changed to today's date that I am creating it. Is there a way that I can get it to stay at the right date that I have set? Thanks |
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Ok, it sounds as if the problem is not the date itself, but the format of
the date. In that case, there are really two options: a. change the way you connect to the data source. b. use Word date format "switches" to format the date correctly For option (a), you need to check Word|Tools|Options|General|"Confirm conversion at Open", go through the process of reconnecting to your data source, then choose the DDE option when it is offered. For option (b), open your Word mail merge main document, press alt-F9, and you should see the underlying field codes e.g. { MERGEFIELD mydate } Change that to { MERGEFIELD mydate \@"MMMM/D/YYYY" } and see if that gives you the result you need. If not, have a look in Word Help for further info. on how to define the bit after \@ For the numbers, try { MERGEFIELD mynumber \#,$.00 } Peter Jamieson "Wartburg College" wrote in message ... I am using Office XP. Word and Excel are both XP. I have formatted the cell in Excell to print out the month (August). When I merge into a Word document, the date is today's date. The field code is MERGEFIELD date. The date is then changed in to mm/dd/yy format. Not the mmmm/d/yyyy that I would like with the month spelled all the way out. The currency is also being changed into $52.0100000000001 not just $52.01 like I Have it set up to be. "Peter Jamieson" wrote: What field code are you using to insert your date? (Use Alt-F9 to see the underlying field code). It should look something like { MERGEFIELD "the name of the date column in Excel" \*Mergeformat } Also, which version of Word/Excel? Peter Jamieson Wartburg College" Wartburg wrote in message ... I have a date that I use to send the letters out and I set the letters up a month in advance. When I am doing the mail merge the date that is set to the Excel is being changed to today's date that I am creating it. Is there a way that I can get it to stay at the right date that I have set? Thanks |
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See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Wartburg College wrote: I am using Office XP. Word and Excel are both XP. I have formatted the cell in Excell to print out the month (August). When I merge into a Word document, the date is today's date. The field code is MERGEFIELD date. The date is then changed in to mm/dd/yy format. Not the mmmm/d/yyyy that I would like with the month spelled all the way out. The currency is also being changed into $52.0100000000001 not just $52.01 like I Have it set up to be. "Peter Jamieson" wrote: What field code are you using to insert your date? (Use Alt-F9 to see the underlying field code). It should look something like { MERGEFIELD "the name of the date column in Excel" \*Mergeformat } Also, which version of Word/Excel? Peter Jamieson Wartburg College" Wartburg wrote in message ... I have a date that I use to send the letters out and I set the letters up a month in advance. When I am doing the mail merge the date that is set to the Excel is being changed to today's date that I am creating it. Is there a way that I can get it to stay at the right date that I have set? Thanks |
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