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Mail Merge date appears in French
I have created a some mail merge fields in a letter with one being a date
field. I've used { TIME \@ "dd MMMM yyyy" } to source the date information however whilst the day and the year are returned in number format as requested, the month text is in French instead of English. French is not a language specified anywhere on the system, I've checked all the language options that i know of.... in Word - Tools - Languages in Microsoft Office Tools from the start menu Control Panel - Regional Settings. Any help would be greatfully appreciated. Regards Mike Abel |
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Mail Merge date appears in French
Wow!
The result depends at least partly on the language specified for the text, so if you select some of the resulting text in the field and look at the language at the bottom of the Word Window, does it say English (something) or French (something). If It's the latter, I can only imagine that something has happened that has changed the language of the text itself. Selecting it and setting it to English in Tools|Language, then re-executing the field maydo the trick. If you have a \*Mergeformat switch in your TIME field I'd delete it before doing the update. Peter Jamieson "Mike Abel" wrote in message ... I have created a some mail merge fields in a letter with one being a date field. I've used { TIME \@ "dd MMMM yyyy" } to source the date information however whilst the day and the year are returned in number format as requested, the month text is in French instead of English. French is not a language specified anywhere on the system, I've checked all the language options that i know of.... in Word - Tools - Languages in Microsoft Office Tools from the start menu Control Panel - Regional Settings. Any help would be greatfully appreciated. Regards Mike Abel |
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Mail Merge date appears in French
Add a charformat switch to the field - and personally I would have used a
CreateDate field - then select the field and tools languague set language to English. The field will thus use whatever proofing language is applied. {TIME \@ "dd MMMM yyyy" \*Charformat } -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mike Abel wrote: I have created a some mail merge fields in a letter with one being a date field. I've used { TIME \@ "dd MMMM yyyy" } to source the date information however whilst the day and the year are returned in number format as requested, the month text is in French instead of English. French is not a language specified anywhere on the system, I've checked all the language options that i know of.... in Word - Tools - Languages in Microsoft Office Tools from the start menu Control Panel - Regional Settings. Any help would be greatfully appreciated. Regards Mike Abel |
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