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Help correcting Date Format
Thanks to both...not quite sure how I got it, but it's working.
"Graham Mayor" wrote: The answer was in my reply. The page is a reference on the use of switches generally. If instead of a Merge date field you are simply using a date field then the field should be modified to {DATE \@ "MMMM d, yyyy"} If your merge is showing that then either you have not used CTRL+F9 for the field brackets and thus your field is merely text, or you need to set tools options print uncheck 'Field Codes'. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jon wrote: There may be an answer somewhere on that web page, but it eludes me. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Jon wrote: I think I've screwed up my letter trying to fix this. I have merged information from my database, but the date comes up as 11/29/2007 instead of November 29, 2007. I've tried to correct his, but then all I get in my merged letter is DATE. I've seen multiple format options, but I can't figure out how to fix this. Any help is appreciated. Change (or add) the formatting switch to the fiield {Mergefield DATE \@ "MMMM d, yyyy"} 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 |
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