Toggle the field display (ALT+F9) and you will see something like
{Mergefield fieldname }
Change that to
{ Mergefield fieldname \@ "M/d/yyyy" }
Press F9 to update then toggle back again.
See
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
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betty wrote:
In Word 2003, I am inserting a date of birth from Access, but the date
printed in the word document is yyyy,MM,dd w/ time info (which time
info is not in the Access data base). I want M/d/yyyy, which is the
way it shows and prints out in Access. I can't figure out how to add
the field switch with the DOB merge field to get the desired result.