I have a mailmerge field containing date of birth .
I want to display the correct age in years.
I have numerous vba functions I can use to calculate the age, but how do I
go about applying a function to a mailmerge field?

Andrew,

See:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...&Number=249902

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Andrew Nav wrote:
I have a mailmerge field containing date of birth .
I want to display the correct age in years.
I have numerous vba functions I can use to calculate the age, but how
do I go about applying a function to a mailmerge field?

I would suggest that you do the calculation in the datasource.

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"Andrew Nav" wrote in message
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I have a mailmerge field containing date of birth .
I want to display the correct age in years.
I have numerous vba functions I can use to calculate the age, but how do I
go about applying a function to a mailmerge field?