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Mail Merge and dates
I am trying to change the date on a mailmerged letter from 03 May 2006 to 3
May 2006. When I use Print Preview the date changes back to 03 May 2006. How do I prevent this? |
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Hi J
Jsampson wrote: I am trying to change the date on a mailmerged letter from 03 May 2006 to 3 May 2006. When I use Print Preview the date changes back to 03 May 2006. How do I prevent this? You obviously have a DATE field there, and the field updates (i.e.) on printing/switching to PrintPreview. With the cursor in the field, hit CTRL-SHIFT-F9 (this breaks the field, turns it into its own result) and correct the date as needed. Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Hi JS,
You can control this by adding a date switch to your mailmerge field. To do this: .. select the field and press Shift-F9 to expose the filed code, which will look something like: {MAILMERGE MyDate} or {MAILMERGE MyDate \@ "dd-MMMM-yyyy"} .. edit the field to look like: {MAILMERGE MyDate \@ "d-MMMM-yyyy"} (note the uppercase 'M's). .. press F9 to update the field .. run your mailmerge Cheers "Jsampson" wrote in message ... I am trying to change the date on a mailmerged letter from 03 May 2006 to 3 May 2006. When I use Print Preview the date changes back to 03 May 2006. How do I prevent this? |
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See also http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jsampson wrote: I am trying to change the date on a mailmerged letter from 03 May 2006 to 3 May 2006. When I use Print Preview the date changes back to 03 May 2006. How do I prevent this? |
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