[Carol]

I've been reading through the various posts related to this problem, and I'm
thinking the merge is delivering my dates from Excel as text since I have a
few header lines at the top of the source file (I've tried the formatting
commands in Word to no avail). The only field code options enabled are for
text -- uppercase, lowercase, etc.

I was just converted to Office 07 so I'm still fumbling around, and I
haven't figured out how to force the date in as a number (saw the menu path &
info for Word03).

I also checked out macropod's massive zip file of date conversions to try
and calculate the mm/dd/yy in Word from the text I have, but I don't see any
actual code lines in each section of the file, just description. Help?