[SEBBY]

I have the date on my excel datasource in english UK format; but when it
transfers to my word mail merge document it reads in US format. HOw can I
prevent that? Windows is set to run UK English

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See the "Dates: day/month reversed" item under the "Connection methods"
topic of the "Mail merge in Word 2002/2003" section of fellow MVP Cindy
Meister's website at

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm

You may also be able to control it by the use of a formatting switch. See
"Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website
at

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

Here is some information on using such switches in another thread by fellow
MVP Macropod:

To get the date format you want, you can add a formatting picture switch. In
Word:
.. select the mergefield;
.. press Shift-F9 to expose the field coding. It should look something like
{MERGEFIELD MyDate} where 'MyDate' is your mergefield's
name;
.. delete anything appearing after the mergefield's name and add '\@ "MMMM d,
yyyy"' to the field, as in {MERGEFIELD MyDate \@ "MMMM
d, yyyy"}. With this switch your date will come out as November 11, 2009'.
Other possible date formatting switches include:
. \@ "dddd MMMM d, yyyy";
. \@ "ddd MMMM d, yyyy";
. \@ "d MMM yyyy";
. \@ "dd/MMM/yyyy";
. \@ "d-MM-yy";
Note: Note: you can swap the d, M, y expressions around, but you must
use uppercase 'M's for months.
.. position the cursor anywhere in this field and press F9 to update it;
.. run your mailmerge.


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"SEBBY" wrote in message
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I have the date on my excel datasource in english UK format; but when it
transfers to my word mail merge document it reads in US format. HOw can I
prevent that? Windows is set to run UK English