[g999999]

dates in my excel work book show as numbers or american format dates when i
mailmerge documents.

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at:

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

or

See the "Dates: day/month reversed" item under the "Connection methods"
topic of the "Mail merge in Word 2002/2003" section of fellow MVP Cindy
Meister's website at:

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

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dates in my excel work book show as numbers or american format dates when
i
mailmerge documents.