See the "Dates: day/month reversed" item under the "Connection methods"
topic of the "Mail merge in Word 2002" section of fellow MVP Cindy
Meister's website at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm


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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"GayleT" wrote in message
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When I use an excel spreadsheet as a data source for a word mail merge my
dates that are formatted d/m/yy convert to m/d/yy. How do I prevent this
from happening