{I'm merging HR data from an Excel spreadsheet into word letters. I've got a
number of date fields that I am merging. Consider you'll always have a start
date for someone and you probably have their first pay rise but you may have
a second, it is less likely you'll have a third one and so on.

I've got the mergefields in a table and am using something like

{MERGEFIELD "fieldnameX" \@ "dd-mmm-yy"}

The dates appear as they should do on the first line of the word table but
on all subsequent lines they revert to number of days since 1/1/1900 ignoring
the formatting.

Does anyone have any ideas what is happening.
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Paul