[Harry H.]

I am using Word 2003 to create letters the merge payroll data from an Excel
2003 spreadsheet.

Graham Major's formatting instructions (
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm ) have helped immensly to
display the currency and date fields properly.

However, I can't seem to get the percentage format to work.

The suggested "{ ={MERGEFIELD "Percent_Increase" } * 100\* "0%" }" renders
"!Syntax Error, {"

If I use: { MERGEFIELD "Percent_Increase" * 100\* "0%" } it renders "0%"
for an input value of 5.00% (on the Excel spreadsheet).

If I use: { MERGEFIELD "Percent_Increase" * 100\* "0.00%" } it renders
"0.05%" for an input value of 5.00% (on the Excel spreadsheet).

If I use: { MERGEFIELD "Percent_Increase" * 100\* "0.0%" } it renders
"0.1%" for an input value of 5.00% (on the Excel spreadsheet).

Note: All of the column names in the Excel spreadsheet show up in the Word
master document enclosed in quotation marks (i.e., ").

I've been trying many different combinations of the suggested mergefield
code, but to no avail. Basically, it appears that the multiplication by 100
is not effective.

Any suggestions?