See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
Alternatively, you will need to format the data in Excel as Text.
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"GTS" wrote in message
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I'm doing a mail merge from an Excel sheet and all the zip codes in the
zip+4
format (12345-1234) are showing up as zeros.
Is there a way to fix this other than doing the switching formulas? I'm
not
that savvy at Word and am intimidated by the formulas. It used to be so
easy!
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GTS