I spotted that just as I clicked 'send'. Did you seet my later post?

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Lee Harris wrote:
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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You will find it a lot easier to make it 07/11/29 by using a
formatting switch

eg {Mergefield fieldname \@ "MM/dd/yy"}
or
{Mergefield fieldname \@ "dd/MM/yy"}
as appropriate for your location.

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ps
its not a date/date format