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Date field
I am using Microsoft Access to Mailmerge into Word, one of my fields is
a date field which displays as UK style in Access e.g. ddmmyyyy but when the merge is complete in Word, the date is displayed US style mmddyyyy. How do I stop this happening? |
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Use a formatting switch on the field
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm {Mergefield datefield \@ "ddmmyyyy"} -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org KLR wrote: I am using Microsoft Access to Mailmerge into Word, one of my fields is a date field which displays as UK style in Access e.g. ddmmyyyy but when the merge is complete in Word, the date is displayed US style mmddyyyy. How do I stop this happening? |
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Brilliant, thanks very much!
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