Put a single quote either side of the dashes.

\# "###'-'##'-'####"

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Me" wrote in message
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I am attempting to merge a SSN field from an Excel document into a Word
document. I understand I have to edit the mergefield to get the
formatting I
want, but the attempts I have tried, haven't worked.

For example, I edited the mergefield with \# "###-##-####" This separated
the numbers in groups like I wanted, but the dashes are missing.
Basically,
my question is how do I get dashes to appear in a mergefield?

Thanks!