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Dear all,
I have a problem, a big one. I`m trying to format mergefields and \# is not working, I`ve tried everything... also \@ is not working. I have Office 2003 SP1 in Spanish. Thanks in advance |
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\# Not Working
Hello Gaston,
Insufficient information! Please post samples of the mergefields using these switches. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... Dear all, I have a problem, a big one. I`m trying to format mergefields and \# is not working, I`ve tried everything... also \@ is not working. I have Office 2003 SP1 in Spanish. Thanks in advance |
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Sorry Macropod...
{MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\###.###} {MERGEFIELD "Fecha_Ult_Increm"\@dd/mm/yy} None is working. Thanks for your help. Gastón macropod ha escrito: Hello Gaston, Insufficient information! Please post samples of the mergefields using these switches. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... Dear all, I have a problem, a big one. I`m trying to format mergefields and \# is not working, I`ve tried everything... also \@ is not working. I have Office 2003 SP1 in Spanish. Thanks in advance |
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It's still not working. I've read your page, very good source.
neither of them are working Don't know what to do, I've updated the values with F9 save it and opened it again. I've tried this... ¨{MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\# "##.000} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} Don`t know what to do.. Thanks fotr your help Graham Mayor ha escrito: Try {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# "##.000"} (was that supposed to be three decimal places?) and {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} and make sure the quotes are plain quotes and not smart quotes. Having made the changes, update the fields 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 wrote: Sorry Macropod... {MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\###.###} {MERGEFIELD "Fecha_Ult_Increm"\@dd/mm/yy} None is working. Thanks for your help. Gastsn macropod ha escrito: Hello Gaston, Insufficient information! Please post samples of the mergefields using these switches. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... Dear all, I have a problem, a big one. I`m trying to format mergefields and \# is not working, I`ve tried everything... also \@ is not working. I have Office 2003 SP1 in Spanish. Thanks in advance |
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\# Not Working
What do
{MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm} produce without the switches? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: It's still not working. I've read your page, very good source. neither of them are working Don't know what to do, I've updated the values with F9 save it and opened it again. I've tried this... ({MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\# "##.000} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} Don`t know what to do.. Thanks fotr your help Graham Mayor ha escrito: Try {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# "##.000"} (was that supposed to be three decimal places?) and {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} and make sure the quotes are plain quotes and not smart quotes. Having made the changes, update the fields 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 wrote: Sorry Macropod... {MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\###.###} {MERGEFIELD "Fecha_Ult_Increm"\@dd/mm/yy} None is working. Thanks for your help. Gastsn macropod ha escrito: Hello Gaston, Insufficient information! Please post samples of the mergefields using these switches. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... Dear all, I have a problem, a big one. I`m trying to format mergefields and \# is not working, I`ve tried everything... also \@ is not working. I have Office 2003 SP1 in Spanish. Thanks in advance |
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\# Not Working
What is the data source and what field types are Total_Fijo_mensual and
Fecha_Ult_Increm ? Does for example, { DATE \@ "dd/MM/yy" } work as you expect? If it does, it sounds as if Word is not recognising Fecha_Ult_Increm as a date. Something similar could be going on with Total_Fijo_Mensual as well (although I rather doubt it. {MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\# "##.000} It really needs to be { MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual" \# "##.000" } or {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# "##.000" } (the spacing may or may not be important but the closing quote probably is). Peter Jamieson wrote in message oups.com... It's still not working. I've read your page, very good source. neither of them are working Don't know what to do, I've updated the values with F9 save it and opened it again. I've tried this... ¨{MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\# "##.000} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} Don`t know what to do.. Thanks fotr your help Graham Mayor ha escrito: Try {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# "##.000"} (was that supposed to be three decimal places?) and {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} and make sure the quotes are plain quotes and not smart quotes. Having made the changes, update the fields 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 wrote: Sorry Macropod... {MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\###.###} {MERGEFIELD "Fecha_Ult_Increm"\@dd/mm/yy} None is working. Thanks for your help. Gastsn macropod ha escrito: Hello Gaston, Insufficient information! Please post samples of the mergefields using these switches. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... Dear all, I have a problem, a big one. I`m trying to format mergefields and \# is not working, I`ve tried everything... also \@ is not working. I have Office 2003 SP1 in Spanish. Thanks in advance |
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\# Not Working
Thanks Peter,
Total_Fijo_mensual is a formula in excel, and it`s format is currency. Fecha_ult_increm is a date in excel. I've tried { DATE \@ "dd/MM/yy" } and it works perfectly, Thanks for your help. Gastón Peter Jamieson ha escrito: What is the data source and what field types are Total_Fijo_mensual and Fecha_Ult_Increm ? Does for example, { DATE \@ "dd/MM/yy" } work as you expect? If it does, it sounds as if Word is not recognising Fecha_Ult_Increm as a date. Something similar could be going on with Total_Fijo_Mensual as well (although I rather doubt it. {MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\# "##.000} It really needs to be { MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual" \# "##.000" } or {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# "##.000" } (the spacing may or may not be important but the closing quote probably is). Peter Jamieson wrote in message oups.com... It's still not working. I've read your page, very good source. neither of them are working Don't know what to do, I've updated the values with F9 save it and opened it again. I've tried this... ¨{MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\# "##.000} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} Don`t know what to do.. Thanks fotr your help Graham Mayor ha escrito: Try {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# "##.000"} (was that supposed to be three decimal places?) and {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} and make sure the quotes are plain quotes and not smart quotes. Having made the changes, update the fields 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 wrote: Sorry Macropod... {MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\###.###} {MERGEFIELD "Fecha_Ult_Increm"\@dd/mm/yy} None is working. Thanks for your help. Gastsn macropod ha escrito: Hello Gaston, Insufficient information! Please post samples of the mergefields using these switches. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... Dear all, I have a problem, a big one. I`m trying to format mergefields and \# is not working, I`ve tried everything... also \@ is not working. I have Office 2003 SP1 in Spanish. Thanks in advance |
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Without the switches I get,
{MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual} 4389.44 ( I want no decimal places) {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm} 38078 Thanks What do {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm} produce without the switches? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: It's still not working. I've read your page, very good source. neither of them are working Don't know what to do, I've updated the values with F9 save it and opened it again. I've tried this... ({MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\# "##.000} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} Don`t know what to do.. Thanks fotr your help Graham Mayor ha escrito: Try {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# "##.000"} (was that supposed to be three decimal places?) and {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} and make sure the quotes are plain quotes and not smart quotes. Having made the changes, update the fields 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 wrote: Sorry Macropod... {MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\###.###} {MERGEFIELD "Fecha_Ult_Increm"\@dd/mm/yy} None is working. Thanks for your help. Gastsn macropod ha escrito: Hello Gaston, Insufficient information! Please post samples of the mergefields using these switches. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... Dear all, I have a problem, a big one. I`m trying to format mergefields and \# is not working, I`ve tried everything... also \@ is not working. I have Office 2003 SP1 in Spanish. Thanks in advance |
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I think there may be an issue relating to regional settings. Is '.' a
thousands separator in your Word version? As fore the first item, { =ROUND({MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual},0) } should give you the nearest whole number. The second field does not contain a date. You cannot derive a Word date from it. 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. 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 site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: Without the switches I get, {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual} 4389.44 ( I want no decimal places) {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm} 38078 Thanks What do {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm} produce without the switches? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: It's still not working. I've read your page, very good source. neither of them are working Don't know what to do, I've updated the values with F9 save it and opened it again. I've tried this... ({MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\# "##.000} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} Don`t know what to do.. Thanks fotr your help Graham Mayor ha escrito: Try {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# "##.000"} (was that supposed to be three decimal places?) and {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} and make sure the quotes are plain quotes and not smart quotes. Having made the changes, update the fields 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 wrote: Sorry Macropod... {MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\###.###} {MERGEFIELD "Fecha_Ult_Increm"\@dd/mm/yy} None is working. Thanks for your help. Gastsn macropod ha escrito: Hello Gaston, Insufficient information! Please post samples of the mergefields using these switches. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... Dear all, I have a problem, a big one. I`m trying to format mergefields and \# is not working, I`ve tried everything... also \@ is not working. I have Office 2003 SP1 in Spanish. Thanks in advance |
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\# Not Working
Your dates are probably in "Julian date" format which is why Word won't
format them. I do not know why Word sometimes gets them in this format, but maybe that bit of information will help you identify whether there is anything unusual about your date column in Excel, or whether creating another column which refers to the date will help. I agree with Graham about the numbers. Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... Thanks Peter, Total_Fijo_mensual is a formula in excel, and it`s format is currency. Fecha_ult_increm is a date in excel. I've tried { DATE \@ "dd/MM/yy" } and it works perfectly, Thanks for your help. Gastón Peter Jamieson ha escrito: What is the data source and what field types are Total_Fijo_mensual and Fecha_Ult_Increm ? Does for example, { DATE \@ "dd/MM/yy" } work as you expect? If it does, it sounds as if Word is not recognising Fecha_Ult_Increm as a date. Something similar could be going on with Total_Fijo_Mensual as well (although I rather doubt it. {MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\# "##.000} It really needs to be { MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual" \# "##.000" } or {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# "##.000" } (the spacing may or may not be important but the closing quote probably is). Peter Jamieson wrote in message oups.com... It's still not working. I've read your page, very good source. neither of them are working Don't know what to do, I've updated the values with F9 save it and opened it again. I've tried this... ¨{MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\# "##.000} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} Don`t know what to do.. Thanks fotr your help Graham Mayor ha escrito: Try {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# "##.000"} (was that supposed to be three decimal places?) and {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} and make sure the quotes are plain quotes and not smart quotes. Having made the changes, update the fields 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 wrote: Sorry Macropod... {MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\###.###} {MERGEFIELD "Fecha_Ult_Increm"\@dd/mm/yy} None is working. Thanks for your help. Gastsn macropod ha escrito: Hello Gaston, Insufficient information! Please post samples of the mergefields using these switches. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... Dear all, I have a problem, a big one. I`m trying to format mergefields and \# is not working, I`ve tried everything... also \@ is not working. I have Office 2003 SP1 in Spanish. Thanks in advance |
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Thanks!
I have changed the regional configuration to my pc and It seems to be working. Thanks a lot for your help! Peter Jamieson ha escrito: Your dates are probably in "Julian date" format which is why Word won't format them. I do not know why Word sometimes gets them in this format, but maybe that bit of information will help you identify whether there is anything unusual about your date column in Excel, or whether creating another column which refers to the date will help. I agree with Graham about the numbers. Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... Thanks Peter, |
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Now I have problems with the date. Don´t know what else to do.
I have changed the date format and nothing. Thanks for all the help. ha escrito: Thanks! I have changed the regional configuration to my pc and It seems to be working. Thanks a lot for your help! Peter Jamieson ha escrito: Your dates are probably in "Julian date" format which is why Word won't format them. I do not know why Word sometimes gets them in this format, but maybe that bit of information will help you identify whether there is anything unusual about your date column in Excel, or whether creating another column which refers to the date will help. I agree with Graham about the numbers. Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... Thanks Peter, |
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Don´t know what else to do.
Nor do I :-( Just some thoughts/questions... Are your dates entered directly into Excel? How do they look in Excel? Are /all/ the cells with dates in this column formatted as dates? Which format is used? Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... Now I have problems with the date. Don´t know what else to do. I have changed the date format and nothing. Thanks for all the help. ha escrito: Thanks! I have changed the regional configuration to my pc and It seems to be working. Thanks a lot for your help! Peter Jamieson ha escrito: Your dates are probably in "Julian date" format which is why Word won't format them. I do not know why Word sometimes gets them in this format, but maybe that bit of information will help you identify whether there is anything unusual about your date column in Excel, or whether creating another column which refers to the date will help. I agree with Graham about the numbers. Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... Thanks Peter, |
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Peter,
The dates are entered directly into excel formated as date with regional configuration in English and they look like: 1-apr-04 I've tried diferent ways but none is working. Thanks for the help Peter Jamieson ha escrito: Don´t know what else to do. Nor do I :-( Just some thoughts/questions... Are your dates entered directly into Excel? How do they look in Excel? Are /all/ the cells with dates in this column formatted as dates? Which format is used? Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... Now I have problems with the date. Don´t know what else to do. I have changed the date format and nothing. Thanks for all the help. ha escrito: Thanks! I have changed the regional configuration to my pc and It seems to be working. Thanks a lot for your help! Peter Jamieson ha escrito: Your dates are probably in "Julian date" format which is why Word won't format them. I do not know why Word sometimes gets them in this format, but maybe that bit of information will help you identify whether there is anything unusual about your date column in Excel, or whether creating another column which refers to the date will help. I agree with Graham about the numbers. Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... Thanks Peter, |
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Are you re-connecting to your Excel data source (from Word) when you make
format changes? Peter Jamieson wrote in message oups.com... Peter, The dates are entered directly into excel formated as date with regional configuration in English and they look like: 1-apr-04 I've tried diferent ways but none is working. Thanks for the help Peter Jamieson ha escrito: Don´t know what else to do. Nor do I :-( Just some thoughts/questions... Are your dates entered directly into Excel? How do they look in Excel? Are /all/ the cells with dates in this column formatted as dates? Which format is used? Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... Now I have problems with the date. Don´t know what else to do. I have changed the date format and nothing. Thanks for all the help. ha escrito: Thanks! I have changed the regional configuration to my pc and It seems to be working. Thanks a lot for your help! Peter Jamieson ha escrito: Your dates are probably in "Julian date" format which is why Word won't format them. I do not know why Word sometimes gets them in this format, but maybe that bit of information will help you identify whether there is anything unusual about your date column in Excel, or whether creating another column which refers to the date will help. I agree with Graham about the numbers. Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... Thanks Peter, |
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Thanks Peter and all of you who have helped me.
I've solve this problem, What have I done: I've changed regional configuration to english I've changed some headers I've re connected the data souce I've formated each field individually. Thanks. Peter Jamieson ha escrito: Are you re-connecting to your Excel data source (from Word) when you make format changes? Peter Jamieson wrote in message oups.com... Peter, The dates are entered directly into excel formated as date with regional configuration in English and they look like: 1-apr-04 I've tried diferent ways but none is working. Thanks for the help Peter Jamieson ha escrito: Don´t know what else to do. Nor do I :-( Just some thoughts/questions... Are your dates entered directly into Excel? How do they look in Excel? Are /all/ the cells with dates in this column formatted as dates? Which format is used? Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... Now I have problems with the date. Don´t know what else to do. I have changed the date format and nothing. Thanks for all the help. ha escrito: Thanks! I have changed the regional configuration to my pc and It seems to be working. Thanks a lot for your help! Peter Jamieson ha escrito: Your dates are probably in "Julian date" format which is why Word won't format them. I do not know why Word sometimes gets them in this format, but maybe that bit of information will help you identify whether there is anything unusual about your date column in Excel, or whether creating another column which refers to the date will help. I agree with Graham about the numbers. Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... Thanks Peter, |
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Hi Gaston,
The problem here seems to be that the mailmerge data are being transferred in Excel's native format, rather than with the formatting that you applied there. You can preserve the source data’s formatting by using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). To choose the DDE data transfer method when you're connecting to an Excel worksheet during a mail merge, all you have to do is select one check box in Word: 1. On the Word Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab. 2. Click Confirm conversion at Open. At the step in the mail-merge process where you connect to your data file, after you locate the file you want to connect to, the Confirm Data Source dialog box opens. Click “Application via DDE (*.???)”, and then click OK. In the Application dialog box, select the table/range that contains the information you want to merge, and then click OK. The data will now be formatted the same in your merged documents as they look in the source file. Alternatively, you can code mailmerge fields with the appropriate formulae and numeric/picture switches. For 'Total_Fijo_Mensual ', all you'd need to do is add a picture switch to the field, thus: {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# ,0} This will round off each amount to the nearest whole number. You may want to do this anyway if your Excel data are formatted to show the decimal values, but you don't want to show them in your mailmerge or alter your source file. For 'Fecha_Ult_Increm', the numers you're seeing are the serial values Excel uses for dates. To fix this you could download my Date Calc 'tutorial', at: http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...?Number=249902 and adapt the field coding under the heading 'Importing Date and Time Values From Excel and Access' to suit, by changing the 'ImportValue' string to 'MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm' and modifying the date & time switch. Personally, I'd recommend using the DDE connection. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message oups.com... Without the switches I get, {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual} 4389.44 ( I want no decimal places) {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm} 38078 Thanks What do {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm} produce without the switches? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: It's still not working. I've read your page, very good source. neither of them are working Don't know what to do, I've updated the values with F9 save it and opened it again. I've tried this... ({MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\# "##.000} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} Don`t know what to do.. Thanks fotr your help Graham Mayor ha escrito: Try {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# "##.000"} (was that supposed to be three decimal places?) and {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} and make sure the quotes are plain quotes and not smart quotes. Having made the changes, update the fields 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 wrote: Sorry Macropod... {MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\###.###} {MERGEFIELD "Fecha_Ult_Increm"\@dd/mm/yy} None is working. Thanks for your help. Gastsn macropod ha escrito: Hello Gaston, Insufficient information! Please post samples of the mergefields using these switches. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... Dear all, I have a problem, a big one. I`m trying to format mergefields and \# is not working, I`ve tried everything... also \@ is not working. I have Office 2003 SP1 in Spanish. Thanks in advance |
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\# Not Working
Thanks Macropod,
I've read that solution on another post and tried it. I had problems connecting with DDE. The solution I found was to change the regional settings. Now I have to get used to the date format mm/dd/yyyy for all the other applications. In other PC's I can't make it work without changing the regional config. Thanks Gastón macropod ha escrito: Hi Gaston, The problem here seems to be that the mailmerge data are being transferred in Excel's native format, rather than with the formatting that you applied there. You can preserve the source data's formatting by using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). To choose the DDE data transfer method when you're connecting to an Excel worksheet during a mail merge, all you have to do is select one check box in Word: 1. On the Word Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab. 2. Click Confirm conversion at Open. At the step in the mail-merge process where you connect to your data file, after you locate the file you want to connect to, the Confirm Data Source dialog box opens. Click "Application via DDE (*.???)", and then click OK. In the Application dialog box, select the table/range that contains the information you want to merge, and then click OK. The data will now be formatted the same in your merged documents as they look in the source file. Alternatively, you can code mailmerge fields with the appropriate formulae and numeric/picture switches. For 'Total_Fijo_Mensual ', all you'd need to do is add a picture switch to the field, thus: {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# ,0} This will round off each amount to the nearest whole number. You may want to do this anyway if your Excel data are formatted to show the decimal values, but you don't want to show them in your mailmerge or alter your source file. For 'Fecha_Ult_Increm', the numers you're seeing are the serial values Excel uses for dates. To fix this you could download my Date Calc 'tutorial', at: http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...?Number=249902 and adapt the field coding under the heading 'Importing Date and Time Values From Excel and Access' to suit, by changing the 'ImportValue' string to 'MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm' and modifying the date & time switch. Personally, I'd recommend using the DDE connection. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message oups.com... Without the switches I get, {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual} 4389.44 ( I want no decimal places) {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm} 38078 Thanks What do {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm} produce without the switches? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: It's still not working. I've read your page, very good source. neither of them are working Don't know what to do, I've updated the values with F9 save it and opened it again. I've tried this... ({MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\# "##.000} and..... {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} Don`t know what to do.. Thanks fotr your help Graham Mayor ha escrito: Try {MERGEFIELD Total_Fijo_Mensual \# "##.000"} (was that supposed to be three decimal places?) and {MERGEFIELD Fecha_Ult_Increm \@ "dd/MM/yy"} and make sure the quotes are plain quotes and not smart quotes. Having made the changes, update the fields 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 wrote: Sorry Macropod... {MERGEFIELD "Total_Fijo_Mensual"\###.###} {MERGEFIELD "Fecha_Ult_Increm"\@dd/mm/yy} None is working. Thanks for your help. Gastsn macropod ha escrito: Hello Gaston, Insufficient information! Please post samples of the mergefields using these switches. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] wrote in message ups.com... Dear all, I have a problem, a big one. I`m trying to format mergefields and \# is not working, I`ve tried everything... also \@ is not working. I have Office 2003 SP1 in Spanish. Thanks in advance |
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