I am using mail merge in word to collect data from Access but ID numbers such
as 0002 lose the zeros, and in dates 01/01/2006 become 1/1/2006 - how do I
stop this happening.

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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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"KingTrog" wrote in message
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I am using mail merge in word to collect data from Access but ID numbers
such
as 0002 lose the zeros, and in dates 01/01/2006 become 1/1/2006 - how do I
stop this happening.