[CarolMarie]

Hi,

I'm using MS Word 2003 (Small Business) and merging from Excel. I have
another letter that merges the date without any problem (same field name,
same file, different worksheet). I've even gone ahead and cut and pasted
the Merge Field (with all it's formatting) from one Word file to the other
and I still get it in what I think is called the gregorian format (a 5 digit
number - e.g. 39474). I've searched through the other posts, but nothing
seems to address this issue.

I'm using the code: MERGEFIELD "recd_date" \@ "MMMM d, yyyy", but after
making the change by going to right click, edit field, mergefield,
fieldcodes, options, preserve formattign during updates, OK.

The formatting picture I've selected then just disappears.

Carol Marie