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Merging Time Fields
My data source has the time formatted in this manner: 08.30.00 and I want it
to print 8:30 am in Word yet it prints 12:00 am. If the time is 13.30.00, it will print fine: 1:30 pm. What is wrong? -- Kim |
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Try adding a
\@ "H:mm" switch inside the closing } of the mergefield that is displayed when you use Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes -- 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 "Kim" wrote in message ... My data source has the time formatted in this manner: 08.30.00 and I want it to print 8:30 am in Word yet it prints 12:00 am. If the time is 13.30.00, it will print fine: 1:30 pm. What is wrong? -- Kim |
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Does not work. 13.30.00 will print correctly as 13:30 but 08.30.00 prints 0:00
It's treating these values differently. -- Kim "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Try adding a \@ "H:mm" switch inside the closing } of the mergefield that is displayed when you use Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes -- 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 "Kim" wrote in message ... My data source has the time formatted in this manner: 08.30.00 and I want it to print 8:30 am in Word yet it prints 12:00 am. If the time is 13.30.00, it will print fine: 1:30 pm. What is wrong? -- Kim |
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From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab
and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. (In Word 2007 it is Office Button Word Options Advanced General Confirm file format conversion on open). Then when you attach the data source to the mail merge main document, you will be given the option of using the DDE method of connection which should read the data as you have it formatted in the table. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: Does not work. 13.30.00 will print correctly as 13:30 but 08.30.00 prints 0:00 It's treating these values differently. Try adding a \@ "H:mm" switch inside the closing } of the mergefield that is displayed when you use Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes -- 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 "Kim" wrote in message ... My data source has the time formatted in this manner: 08.30.00 and I want it to print 8:30 am in Word yet it prints 12:00 am. If the time is 13.30.00, it will print fine: 1:30 pm. What is wrong? -- Kim |
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My data source is a .txt file, it's generated from another application. I
tried all 3 DDE options available: Excel, Access, and Query, and none of them work -- Kim "Graham Mayor" wrote: From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. (In Word 2007 it is Office Button Word Options Advanced General Confirm file format conversion on open). Then when you attach the data source to the mail merge main document, you will be given the option of using the DDE method of connection which should read the data as you have it formatted in the table. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: Does not work. 13.30.00 will print correctly as 13:30 but 08.30.00 prints 0:00 It's treating these values differently. Try adding a \@ "H:mm" switch inside the closing } of the mergefield that is displayed when you use Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes -- 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 "Kim" wrote in message ... My data source has the time formatted in this manner: 08.30.00 and I want it to print 8:30 am in Word yet it prints 12:00 am. If the time is 13.30.00, it will print fine: 1:30 pm. What is wrong? -- Kim |
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I cannot replicate your problem using
{ MERGEFIELD "Start" \@ "h:mm am/pm" } { MERGEFIELD "Start" \@ "h:mm am/pm" } and a tab delimited text file containing Start Finish 08:30:00 09:25:00 12:30:00 13:30:00 15:30:00 16:00:00 as the data source. The result for the first record is 8:30 AM 9:25 AM The connection to the datasource was the default method of connection. -- 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 "Kim" wrote in message ... My data source is a .txt file, it's generated from another application. I tried all 3 DDE options available: Excel, Access, and Query, and none of them work -- Kim "Graham Mayor" wrote: From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. (In Word 2007 it is Office Button Word Options Advanced General Confirm file format conversion on open). Then when you attach the data source to the merge main document, you will be given the option of using the DDE method of connection which should read the data as you have it formatted in the table. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: Does not work. 13.30.00 will print correctly as 13:30 but 08.30.00 prints 0:00 It's treating these values differently. Try adding a \@ "H:mm" switch inside the closing } of the mergefield that is displayed when you use Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes -- 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 "Kim" wrote in message ... My data source has the time formatted in this manner: 08.30.00 and I want it to print 8:30 am in Word yet it prints 12:00 am. If the time is 13.30.00, it will print fine: 1:30 pm. What is wrong? -- Kim |
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Post an offending sample of your data - like Doug I cannot reproduce the
fault on the basis of the information you have provided. DDE is for Excel/Access, TXT should not be an issue. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: My data source is a .txt file, it's generated from another application. I tried all 3 DDE options available: Excel, Access, and Query, and none of them work From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. (In Word 2007 it is Office Button Word Options Advanced General Confirm file format conversion on open). Then when you attach the data source to the mail merge main document, you will be given the option of using the DDE method of connection which should read the data as you have it formatted in the table. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: Does not work. 13.30.00 will print correctly as 13:30 but 08.30.00 prints 0:00 It's treating these values differently. Try adding a \@ "H:mm" switch inside the closing } of the mergefield that is displayed when you use Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes -- 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 "Kim" wrote in message ... My data source has the time formatted in this manner: 08.30.00 and I want it to print 8:30 am in Word yet it prints 12:00 am. If the time is 13.30.00, it will print fine: 1:30 pm. What is wrong? -- Kim |
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The time field in my text file is formatted like this:
08.30.00 13.30.00 separated by decimals not colons. -- Kim "Graham Mayor" wrote: Post an offending sample of your data - like Doug I cannot reproduce the fault on the basis of the information you have provided. DDE is for Excel/Access, TXT should not be an issue. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: My data source is a .txt file, it's generated from another application. I tried all 3 DDE options available: Excel, Access, and Query, and none of them work From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. (In Word 2007 it is Office Button Word Options Advanced General Confirm file format conversion on open). Then when you attach the data source to the mail merge main document, you will be given the option of using the DDE method of connection which should read the data as you have it formatted in the table. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: Does not work. 13.30.00 will print correctly as 13:30 but 08.30.00 prints 0:00 It's treating these values differently. Try adding a \@ "H:mm" switch inside the closing } of the mergefield that is displayed when you use Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes -- 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 "Kim" wrote in message ... My data source has the time formatted in this manner: 08.30.00 and I want it to print 8:30 am in Word yet it prints 12:00 am. If the time is 13.30.00, it will print fine: 1:30 pm. What is wrong? -- Kim |
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Change the text file to produce a legitimate time format by using colons
instead of decimals. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: The time field in my text file is formatted like this: 08.30.00 13.30.00 separated by decimals not colons. Post an offending sample of your data - like Doug I cannot reproduce the fault on the basis of the information you have provided. DDE is for Excel/Access, TXT should not be an issue. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: My data source is a .txt file, it's generated from another application. I tried all 3 DDE options available: Excel, Access, and Query, and none of them work From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. (In Word 2007 it is Office Button Word Options Advanced General Confirm file format conversion on open). Then when you attach the data source to the mail merge main document, you will be given the option of using the DDE method of connection which should read the data as you have it formatted in the table. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: Does not work. 13.30.00 will print correctly as 13:30 but 08.30.00 prints 0:00 It's treating these values differently. Try adding a \@ "H:mm" switch inside the closing } of the mergefield that is displayed when you use Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes -- 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 "Kim" wrote in message ... My data source has the time formatted in this manner: 08.30.00 and I want it to print 8:30 am in Word yet it prints 12:00 am. If the time is 13.30.00, it will print fine: 1:30 pm. What is wrong? -- Kim |
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I have no control over the text file since it's produced by another
application. I don't understand why 13.30.00 is interpretted correctly but 08.30.00 isn't. -- Kim "Graham Mayor" wrote: Change the text file to produce a legitimate time format by using colons instead of decimals. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: The time field in my text file is formatted like this: 08.30.00 13.30.00 separated by decimals not colons. Post an offending sample of your data - like Doug I cannot reproduce the fault on the basis of the information you have provided. DDE is for Excel/Access, TXT should not be an issue. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: My data source is a .txt file, it's generated from another application. I tried all 3 DDE options available: Excel, Access, and Query, and none of them work From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. (In Word 2007 it is Office Button Word Options Advanced General Confirm file format conversion on open). Then when you attach the data source to the mail merge main document, you will be given the option of using the DDE method of connection which should read the data as you have it formatted in the table. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Kim wrote: Does not work. 13.30.00 will print correctly as 13:30 but 08.30.00 prints 0:00 It's treating these values differently. Try adding a \@ "H:mm" switch inside the closing } of the mergefield that is displayed when you use Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes -- 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 "Kim" wrote in message ... My data source has the time formatted in this manner: 08.30.00 and I want it to print 8:30 am in Word yet it prints 12:00 am. If the time is 13.30.00, it will print fine: 1:30 pm. What is wrong? -- Kim |
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Kim,
I believe your data/values are being read like this: 08.30.00 = August 30, 2000 or just August 30 at midnight or 00:00:00 hrs Because the "08" can represent the month of August 13.30.00 = 13:30:00 Since there is no 13th month, the "13" (or higher figure), will reflect the 24/military time correctly. -- Add MS to your News Reader: news://msnews.microsoft.com Rich/rerat (RRR News) message rule Previous Text Snipped to Save Bandwidth When Appropriate "Kim" wrote in message ... I have no control over the text file since it's produced by another application. I don't understand why 13.30.00 is interpretted correctly but 08.30.00 isn't. -- Kim |
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