[KC]

ok so i've looked over here and have seen several suggestions that i thought
would work but so far i've had no luck.

i have a mail merge document that imports data from excel 2003. everything
seems to work fine except for 2 problems. 1 i can live with but if you can
help me fix it it would be great. the other i need to fix.

the problem i need to fix is the date entry i have on the mail merge
document shows up as ######.### instead of DD/MM/yy hh:mm am/pm. the time
and date are all one field because that is how the program i import that data
into excel stores it. i've tried changing the source coding through options
and i lose the field that contains the email addresses i need to send it to.
when i tried using the (/@) format commands nothing happened. i suspect it
is because the information is derived from a formula on the original
spreadsheet. but am hoping someone has a way i can get this to work.

[Graham Mayor]

Word treats the merged information not as it is displayed but as it is
stored in Excel and with this format that is as a long decimal number.

From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab
and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. Then when
you attach the data source to the mail merge main document, you will be
given the option of using the DDE method of connection which should read the
data as you have it formatted in the table.

Note however that DDE connections are flaky and this may not work reliably.
In that case you will have to derive separate fields in your data source for
date and time information from the original data.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




"KC" wrote in message
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ok so i've looked over here and have seen several suggestions that i
thought
would work but so far i've had no luck.

i have a mail merge document that imports data from excel 2003.
everything
seems to work fine except for 2 problems. 1 i can live with but if you
can
help me fix it it would be great. the other i need to fix.

the problem i need to fix is the date entry i have on the mail merge
document shows up as ######.### instead of DD/MM/yy hh:mm am/pm. the time
and date are all one field because that is how the program i import that
data
into excel stores it. i've tried changing the source coding through
options
and i lose the field that contains the email addresses i need to send it
to.
when i tried using the (/@) format commands nothing happened. i suspect
it
is because the information is derived from a formula on the original
spreadsheet. but am hoping someone has a way i can get this to work.