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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My data in Excel includes a column of dates which have been formatted for
UK
English. When I mailmerge this data the dates change format to the US
reverse
number format, e.g. 20 July 2006 becomes 7/20/2006. How can I preserve UK
format?