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
"MKLeisure" wrote in message
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I have an Excel spreadsheet with the date column formatted to display the
dates in character format (March 27,2005). When I do the mail merge with a
Word document the date reverts to the fomat it was enterd in 03/27/2005.
How
can I get it the maintain the character format in the letter? Additionally
this information is imported into the Excel spreadsheet from a database.

Thanks