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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"Michelle" wrote in message
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I am trying to mail merge some start dates, when it previews in Word, any
date prior to the 13th of the month uses the American format. Is there any
way to overcome this?