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Doug Robbins - Word MVP Doug Robbins - Word MVP is offline
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Default Merged field includes extraneous numbers?

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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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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When I use mail merge with Excel being the data source, one of the merged
fields adds extra numbers. For example, 5.263 becomes 5.262999999999.
This
is not a formatting thing in Excel as the 5.263 is not driving off a
formula
or anything (it's a manually entered number) and it is rounding to 3
decimal
such that if I add decimals it becomes 5.263000, etc. I have no idea
where
the 9s are coming from and why it is rounding down.

PLEASE HELP!!!!