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Default How do you get the dollar signs to remain from a merge?

When merging information from an excel document to a word document, I am
losing the dollar sign and the cents if they end in "0." Any advice?
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Default How do you get the dollar signs to remain from a merge?

You will need to add a formatting switch the field in the mail merge main
document. Press Alt+F9 to display the field codes

{ MERGEFIELD fieldname }

and add

\# "$,0.00;($,0.00)"

inside the closing }, so that you have

{ MERGEFIELD fieldname \# "$,0.00;($,0.00)" }

Press Alt+F9 again to toggle off the display of field codes.

For more information on using formatting switches, 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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When merging information from an excel document to a word document, I am
losing the dollar sign and the cents if they end in "0." Any advice?



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