I'm doing a mail merge in MS Word 2003 and the zipcode column has a zero
infront of the 8 digit numbers, and MS Word automatically display that
zipcode to be 0 and the other 8 digit numbers are gone. This is if the
zipcode column is formated as text in Excel. If the zipcode column is
formated as Zip Code + 4 in Excel then when mail merge in Word, the
zero that is in front of the rest of the numbers got trimmed and only
display 8 digita instead of 9 digit with the zero leading. How do I
solve this problem?

Any help is appreciated.

ljCharlie


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ljCharlie

See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm


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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"ljCharlie" wrote in message
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I'm doing a mail merge in MS Word 2003 and the zipcode column has a zero
infront of the 8 digit numbers, and MS Word automatically display that
zipcode to be 0 and the other 8 digit numbers are gone. This is if the
zipcode column is formated as text in Excel. If the zipcode column is
formated as Zip Code + 4 in Excel then when mail merge in Word, the
zero that is in front of the rest of the numbers got trimmed and only
display 8 digita instead of 9 digit with the zero leading. How do I
solve this problem?

Any help is appreciated.

ljCharlie


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ljCharlie