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I am doing a mail merge from Access. The DB has a date field that I am
merging into the letter. I want to print it as July 15, 2009 rather than
7/15/09. How can I do this
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Add the following format to the Access "Date" field:



\@ "MMMM dd, yyyy"



{Mergefield "access_date" \@ "MMMM dd, yyyy"}




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