See the discussion on that issue in "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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When I need to mail merge addresses that have zipcodes that begin with 0 -
as
in 06790 - it drops the "0". I have formatted the zipcode column in excel
to
be a zipcode and it shows the 0 in excel.