[JethroUK©]

This is slowly (nay quickly) driving me insane - I have an mailmerge IF
condition to help me spot pending appointments easily

If { MERGEFIELD Myfield \@ "dd/MM/yyyy" } { DATE \@ "dd/MM/yyyy" } {
MERGEFIELD Myfield \@ "ddd dd MMM hh:mm" } {MERGEFIELD Myfield \@ "dd/MM"}

pseudo = If myfield is after today (pending) then, display mydate in long
date format, else mydate as short date format e.g.:

IF 31/10/2007 23/10/2007 = "Wed 31 Oct 07:00" = great

IF 22/10/2007 23/10/2007 = "22/10" = great


After a week of (seemingly) no problems - Today I uncovered a gremlin


IF 06/11/2007 23/10/2007 is returning "06/11" ????? - that's True isn't
it?


I have always had problems getting MS Word (XP 2002) to interpret UK/English
dates - I thought after DDE connection (albeit it very incovenient) my
troubles were over
Just looking at these examples myself (as i type here) I can see that
despite 06/11/2007 displayed in full, formatted correctly (UK day/month),
interpreted (from XL) & displayed correctly, connected as DDE - this is
'still' just a fudge for the folks over in blighty - it is clearly evident
that MS Word 'still' thinks this is US 11th June 2007 & i am about to try
few more dates to confirm it

Is it fair to say MS Word just doesn't know what day it is? Or am I missing
something obvious or do I give up gracefully?