See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm and/or the Excel data
section of http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Linda - Xtremly Peeved wrote:
We have recently swapped over to Windows XP and I am now having a
problem with merging to Word. I need to insert a pre-determined date
which is entered in excel as a dd/mm/yy (ie 03/03/05) raw data set to
dddd, dd mmm yyyy (ie Thursday, 03 March 2005) format in Excel to
keep this format in Word. In our old version this would merge over
automatically keeping the day month etc typed out but now with XP
this formatting is being lost (showing as ie 03/03/05 12:00AM). The
formatting refers to the actual text rather than just the font style.

Also numbers are having .0 added to the end after the merge. (ie 75
in excel (cell format etc set to numbers with 0 decimal) is being
merged to Word as 75.0)
Any suggestions???