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Date Format Frustration - inconsistency
There are many postings over date format and I thought I'd got the measure of
it having referred to Graham Mayor's excellent site. Until . . . I have a letter which populates with 3 dates from a client contact spreadsheet. They were all formatting beautifully then bizarrely, after a recent change elsewhere in the Word document, 2 format OK and 1 gives the numerical value and I get, for instance: 23rd and 39715th. The field codes are exactly the same, i.e. { MERGEFIELD "aDate1" \@ "d" \*Ordinal} and { MERGEFIELD "aDate2" \@ "d" \*Ordinal}. The 3rd date is elsewhere in the document and that's still fine. I've tried replacing the mergefield and using it elsewhere in the document but that gives the same result. Any advice would be gratefully reecived. Many Thanks I'm using Word 2003 |
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Date Format Frustration - inconsistency
Are the cells both formatted the same way 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 "Jimbob" wrote in message ... There are many postings over date format and I thought I'd got the measure of it having referred to Graham Mayor's excellent site. Until . . . I have a letter which populates with 3 dates from a client contact spreadsheet. They were all formatting beautifully then bizarrely, after a recent change elsewhere in the Word document, 2 format OK and 1 gives the numerical value and I get, for instance: 23rd and 39715th. The field codes are exactly the same, i.e. { MERGEFIELD "aDate1" \@ "d" \*Ordinal} and { MERGEFIELD "aDate2" \@ "d" \*Ordinal}. The 3rd date is elsewhere in the document and that's still fine. I've tried replacing the mergefield and using it elsewhere in the document but that gives the same result. Any advice would be gratefully reecived. Many Thanks I'm using Word 2003 |
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Date Format Frustration - inconsistency
Yes, all 3 are formatted exactly the same.
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Are the cells both formatted the same way 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 "Jimbob" wrote in message ... There are many postings over date format and I thought I'd got the measure of it having referred to Graham Mayor's excellent site. Until . . . I have a letter which populates with 3 dates from a client contact spreadsheet. They were all formatting beautifully then bizarrely, after a recent change elsewhere in the Word document, 2 format OK and 1 gives the numerical value and I get, for instance: 23rd and 39715th. The field codes are exactly the same, i.e. { MERGEFIELD "aDate1" \@ "d" \*Ordinal} and { MERGEFIELD "aDate2" \@ "d" \*Ordinal}. The 3rd date is elsewhere in the document and that's still fine. I've tried replacing the mergefield and using it elsewhere in the document but that gives the same result. Any advice would be gratefully reecived. Many Thanks I'm using Word 2003 |
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Date Format Frustration - inconsistency
What do {Mergefield aDate1} and {Mergefield aDate2} produce?
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jimbob wrote: Yes, all 3 are formatted exactly the same. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Are the cells both formatted the same way 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 "Jimbob" wrote in message ... There are many postings over date format and I thought I'd got the measure of it having referred to Graham Mayor's excellent site. Until . . . I have a letter which populates with 3 dates from a client contact spreadsheet. They were all formatting beautifully then bizarrely, after a recent change elsewhere in the Word document, 2 format OK and 1 gives the numerical value and I get, for instance: 23rd and 39715th. The field codes are exactly the same, i.e. { MERGEFIELD "aDate1" \@ "d" \*Ordinal} and { MERGEFIELD "aDate2" \@ "d" \*Ordinal}. The 3rd date is elsewhere in the document and that's still fine. I've tried replacing the mergefield and using it elsewhere in the document but that gives the same result. Any advice would be gratefully reecived. Many Thanks I'm using Word 2003 |
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Date Format Frustration - inconsistency
Well, you're not going to believe this but after spending an age on this
yesterday and this morning, I've opened it again and the Excel spreadsheet to answer your question. I now find that all dates are exactly as I wanted and expected them to be. I'll surely be back with an answer to your question if the issue recurs. Many thanks for your trouble. "Graham Mayor" wrote: What do {Mergefield aDate1} and {Mergefield aDate2} produce? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jimbob wrote: Yes, all 3 are formatted exactly the same. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Are the cells both formatted the same way 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 "Jimbob" wrote in message ... There are many postings over date format and I thought I'd got the measure of it having referred to Graham Mayor's excellent site. Until . . . I have a letter which populates with 3 dates from a client contact spreadsheet. They were all formatting beautifully then bizarrely, after a recent change elsewhere in the Word document, 2 format OK and 1 gives the numerical value and I get, for instance: 23rd and 39715th. The field codes are exactly the same, i.e. { MERGEFIELD "aDate1" \@ "d" \*Ordinal} and { MERGEFIELD "aDate2" \@ "d" \*Ordinal}. The 3rd date is elsewhere in the document and that's still fine. I've tried replacing the mergefield and using it elsewhere in the document but that gives the same result. Any advice would be gratefully reecived. Many Thanks I'm using Word 2003 |
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