You can add a numeric switch to the mail merge field or use a
different method to connect to your Excel data source that will also
carry over the formats. Go to Tools/Options/General and turn on
"Confirm conversion at open". Then select your Excel data source again
and when prompted use the DDE method instead of OLE DB.

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"tony" wrote in message
...
Excel data source contains a column with currency values (e.g.
$10,000).
When used as data source for merge in Word, merge results in 10000.
Loses
all currency formatting. We can add $ character, naturally, but how
to get
the commas in there??? Better yet, how about, "How do you get Word
to import
currency as currency, so you don't have to add a bunch of formatting
that
should already be there???" Any thoughts / help much apprciated.