[jz0129]

I am doing an Excel mail merge and I formatted the zip codes in excel to have
a 0 in front of them. But when I go into Word, it takes away the 0 at the
beginning of the zip code. What do I do?

[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


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"jz0129" wrote in message
...
I am doing an Excel mail merge and I formatted the zip codes in excel to
have
a 0 in front of them. But when I go into Word, it takes away the 0 at the
beginning of the zip code. What do I do?

[jz0129]

OMG, thank you so much !!!!!!! It worked... a little confusing at first but
its OK now

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

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

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


--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"jz0129" wrote in message
...
I am doing an Excel mail merge and I formatted the zip codes in excel to
have
a 0 in front of them. But when I go into Word, it takes away the 0 at the
beginning of the zip code. What do I do?