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Colin in RSA
 
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Default Mail merge from Excel file changes date formatting

I have create a word document using an Excel worksheet as my database. The
date format in the worksheet is dd/mm/yyyy but comes out as mm/dd/yyyy using
the sql query function or yyyy/mm/dd if the data source is ODBC. How do I get
the format I require with out making the 'date field' in the worksheet a text
field??
 
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