I use form letters for mailing to customers. Within the letters the model
year displays as a 2 digit year (98, 00). Everytime a vehicle year has
leading zeros the filed drops the leading zero. Editing the field and
telling ti to insert a zero is of no use as it adds the zero 98 also. This
was not an issue with office 2000 does anyone know how it can become not an
issue with 2003?

Try putting quotes around the year. With quotes, the data is a string, not a
number.

"Jim" wrote:

I use form letters for mailing to customers. Within the letters the model
year displays as a 2 digit year (98, 00). Everytime a vehicle year has
leading zeros the filed drops the leading zero. Editing the field and
telling ti to insert a zero is of no use as it adds the zero 98 also. This
was not an issue with office 2000 does anyone know how it can become not an
issue with 2003?

See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm



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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Jim" wrote in message
...
I use form letters for mailing to customers. Within the letters the model
year displays as a 2 digit year (98, 00). Everytime a vehicle year has
leading zeros the filed drops the leading zero. Editing the field and
telling ti to insert a zero is of no use as it adds the zero 98 also.
This
was not an issue with office 2000 does anyone know how it can become not
an
issue with 2003?

A simple number switch :

{Mergefield datefieldname \# "00"}

should work

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Doug Robbins wrote:
See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham
Mayor's website at

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm




Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Jim" wrote in message
...
I use form letters for mailing to customers. Within the letters the
model year displays as a 2 digit year (98, 00). Everytime a vehicle
year has leading zeros the filed drops the leading zero. Editing
the field and telling ti to insert a zero is of no use as it adds
the zero 98 also. This
was not an issue with office 2000 does anyone know how it can become
not an
issue with 2003?