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
"farley" wrote in message
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when merging fields from access to word, the long date formatting shows in
the letter as a short date.