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Mail Merge with Excel - Date not Formatting Correctly
Hello,
I am having some issues with my Mail Merge. I am using Word and Excel 2003. I am bringing over some dates from Excel into Word using Mail Merge. The format I would like to see for example, is April 7, 2007. I have numerous dates that are tying into this Word document and I have added the switch \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" to all of the MERGEFIELDS and they are working fine, except for one. I get the serial date of 39179. I have added the switch, deleted it, closed, opened, updated fields etc.. to see if it will register but to no avail. I know Excel and Word are communicating because when I change the date in Excel, the serial date in Word changes to match. It is only this one cell that is not working in this document. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time. Dan |
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Mail Merge with Excel - Date not Formatting Correctly
On Apr 16, 10:12*pm, "Graham Mayor" wrote:
The offending date is not stored as a date in Excel. Check the data formatting or From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. *(In Word 2007 it is Office Button Word Options Advanced General Confirm file format conversion on open). Then when you attach the data source to the mail merge main document, you will be given the option of using the DDE method of connection which should read the data as you have it formatted in the table. -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org wrote: Hello, I am having some issues with my Mail Merge. I am using Word and Excel 2003. *I am bringing over some dates from Excel into Word using Mail Merge. The format I would like to see for example, is April 7, 2007. I have numerous dates that are tying into this Word document and I have added the switch \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" to all of the MERGEFIELDS and they are working fine, except for one. I get the serial date of 39179. I have added the switch, deleted it, closed, opened, updated fields etc.. to see if it will register but to no avail. I know Excel and Word are communicating because when I change the date in Excel, the serial date in Word changes to match. It is only this one cell that is not working in this document. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time. Dan- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - It was stored as a date in Excel. I tried the DDE and it appears to be working. Thanks! |
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Mail Merge with Excel - Date not Formatting Correctly
On Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 5:27:00 PM UTC-7, wrote:
Hello, I am having some issues with my Mail Merge. I am using Word and Excel 2003. I am bringing over some dates from Excel into Word using Mail Merge. The format I would like to see for example, is April 7, 2007. I have numerous dates that are tying into this Word document and I have added the switch \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" to all of the MERGEFIELDS and they are working fine, except for one. I get the serial date of 39179. I have added the switch, deleted it, closed, opened, updated fields etc.. to see if it will register but to no avail. I know Excel and Word are communicating because when I change the date in Excel, the serial date in Word changes to match. It is only this one cell that is not working in this document. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time. Dan That was a fail for me. I chose DDE and it lost all my fields and replaced them with some AutoMerge field. Thanks Microsoft. |
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