Georgia,

Again I believe a switch should work. Something like:

{ MergeField "Your Mergefield Name" \@ "dd/MM/yy" }

You might also have a look at Graham Mayor's discussion on Word Fields he
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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Greg Maxey/Word MVP
A Peer in Peer to Peer Support
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm

Georgina wrote:
I have a similar question: When merging DATES (eg. 23/12/05) from
Access or Excel to Word in a mail merge, it automatically changes it
to US format and I cannot find a way to keep it in the format I need.

"Greg" wrote:

Try using a formatting switch

\@ "hh:mm 'PM'" in the mergefield