It's not a mail merge. I'm using the {DATAFIELD} command to extract
information from a DBF file (via a series of macros written by the insurance
agency management system vendor to interface their databases with Word). I'm
using Word 2000. I can use these data fields in any Word fields, such as
{IF}, {=}, {QUOTE}, etc.

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?R3JhaGFtIEJsdW5kZWxs?=,

I have a data field that could contain entries such as D112904 or A112904,
meaning "Deleted 11/29/04" or "Added 11/29/04". I can use an IF statement to
test for D* or A* and insert "Deleted" or Added" but how do I format the
date?

Are we talking about mail merge, here? Or something else? Version of Word?
What's the data source?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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