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
Also see "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
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"Liz T NN14" Liz T
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My source data is in excel and the date field is written - 01 December
2006,
English format. When I use this field in my word document the date is
written - 12/01/2006, American format. How can I change the merged field
to
show the English format as written above?