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How can I avoid only getting a 0 when mailmerge an itn'l phone nu.
I have an extensive list of address information in an Excel database.
Included are international phone numbers. When I do a mailmerge into a Word document, all the international phone numbers show up only as a zero. I can't find a way to change this. Thank you. |
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How can I avoid only getting a 0 when mailmerge an itn'l phone nu.
See the Excel data section of
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kathym wrote: I have an extensive list of address information in an Excel database. Included are international phone numbers. When I do a mailmerge into a Word document, all the international phone numbers show up only as a zero. I can't find a way to change this. Thank you. |
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How can I avoid only getting a 0 when mailmerge an itn'l phone nu.
Graham, thank you, but I can't find the answer. I don't see what changes I
need to make. Can you pls be specific? Thank you again. "Kathym" wrote: I have an extensive list of address information in an Excel database. Included are international phone numbers. When I do a mailmerge into a Word document, all the international phone numbers show up only as a zero. I can't find a way to change this. Thank you. |
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How can I avoid only getting a 0 when mailmerge an itn'l phone nu.
The Excel Data section indicates how to connect the merge to Excel by using
the DDE connection method, which will bring across the data as you have it in Excel. The alternative is to format the data as numbers in Excel and add a formatting switch to layout the numbers http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm according to the format you require. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kathym wrote: Graham, thank you, but I can't find the answer. I don't see what changes I need to make. Can you pls be specific? Thank you again. "Kathym" wrote: I have an extensive list of address information in an Excel database. Included are international phone numbers. When I do a mailmerge into a Word document, all the international phone numbers show up only as a zero. I can't find a way to change this. Thank you. |
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How can I avoid only getting a 0 when mailmerge an itn'l phone
Sorry to be a pain. I did see the DDE section in Excel, and I changed to that
in the Word options. But it didn't make any difference. And, because I have a whole variety of data formats, I can't select just one formatting to use. "Graham Mayor" wrote: The Excel Data section indicates how to connect the merge to Excel by using the DDE connection method, which will bring across the data as you have it in Excel. The alternative is to format the data as numbers in Excel and add a formatting switch to layout the numbers http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm according to the format you require. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kathym wrote: Graham, thank you, but I can't find the answer. I don't see what changes I need to make. Can you pls be specific? Thank you again. "Kathym" wrote: I have an extensive list of address information in an Excel database. Included are international phone numbers. When I do a mailmerge into a Word document, all the international phone numbers show up only as a zero. I can't find a way to change this. Thank you. |
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How can I avoid only getting a 0 when mailmerge an itn'l phone
Just how do you have the numbers entered into the Excel spreadsheet?
With Word 2003, using the default connection method (that is without the Confirm conversions at open checked), numbers that I enter into a cell with General formatting as '+12139851224 (the format used by a mobile phone so that it can be called from any location)or as '+1 (213) 985-1224 the format used in Outlook or entered into a cell that is formatted as text as +12139851224 or +1 (213) 985-1224 in all cases appear in the merged document exactly as displayed in Excel. -- 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 "Kathym" wrote in message ... Sorry to be a pain. I did see the DDE section in Excel, and I changed to that in the Word options. But it didn't make any difference. And, because I have a whole variety of data formats, I can't select just one formatting to use. "Graham Mayor" wrote: The Excel Data section indicates how to connect the merge to Excel by using the DDE connection method, which will bring across the data as you have it in Excel. The alternative is to format the data as numbers in Excel and add a formatting switch to layout the numbers http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm according to the format you require. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kathym wrote: Graham, thank you, but I can't find the answer. I don't see what changes I need to make. Can you pls be specific? Thank you again. "Kathym" wrote: I have an extensive list of address information in an Excel database. Included are international phone numbers. When I do a mailmerge into a Word document, all the international phone numbers show up only as a zero. I can't find a way to change this. Thank you. |
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