[Ron West]

Hi, I've been given the task of fixing a Mail Merge that worked fine in
Office 2000 but loses the Excel cell-formatting when run under Office 2007. I
understand this is due to the new Office using some form of ADO instead of
DDE to transfer the data.

So, I've been looking at Word formatting pages such as
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm but Im still having a lot
of trouble getting anything remotely complex to work in Word 2007.

My need is to take a number such as 12345678000 from an Excel cell and
format it in Word as £12,345.678m (ie, shown to 3 decimal places of
millions).

The original formatting string in Excel was £#,##0.000,,"m" (which seems
to auto-divide by 1 million for display purposes as well as format the
number) and I have tried to base my Word MERGEFIELD format string on this but
with no success.

I have so far only succeeded in getting the merged field to be formatted as
£12,345,678,000 using \# "£#,##0"

I have tried all sorts of formats and intermediate-value-formulae including
€œSET ...€� and €œ/ 1000000€� but nothing works.

Can anyone help, please?

[Graham Mayor]

You need a calculated field to divide by 1000000 i.e.

{={Mergefield Fieldname} / 1000000 \# "$,0.000m"}

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org







Ron West wrote:
Hi, I've been given the task of fixing a Mail Merge that worked fine
in Office 2000 but loses the Excel cell-formatting when run under
Office 2007. I understand this is due to the new Office using some
form of ADO instead of DDE to transfer the data.

So, I've been looking at Word formatting pages such as
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm but I'm still
having a lot of trouble getting anything remotely complex to work in
Word 2007.

My need is to take a number such as 12345678000 from an Excel cell
and format it in Word as £12,345.678m (ie, shown to 3 decimal
places of millions).

The original formatting string in Excel was £#,##0.000,,"m" (which
seems to auto-divide by 1 million for display purposes as well as
format the number) and I have tried to base my Word MERGEFIELD format
string on this but with no success.

I have so far only succeeded in getting the merged field to be
formatted as £12,345,678,000 using \# "£#,##0"

I have tried all sorts of formats and intermediate-value-formulae
including "SET ..." and "/ 1000000" but nothing works.

Can anyone help, please?

[Ron West]

Sorry - this does not work in Word 2007 (SP1). It says

!Syntax Error, {

where the formatted number should be.

RW


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You need a calculated field to divide by 1000000 i.e.

{={Mergefield Fieldname} / 1000000 \# "$,0.000m"}

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org







Ron West wrote:
Hi, I've been given the task of fixing a Mail Merge that worked fine
in Office 2000 but loses the Excel cell-formatting when run under
Office 2007. I understand this is due to the new Office using some
form of ADO instead of DDE to transfer the data.

So, I've been looking at Word formatting pages such as
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm but I'm still
having a lot of trouble getting anything remotely complex to work in
Word 2007.

My need is to take a number such as 12345678000 from an Excel cell
and format it in Word as £12,345.678m (ie, shown to 3 decimal
places of millions).

The original formatting string in Excel was £#,##0.000,,"m" (which
seems to auto-divide by 1 million for display purposes as well as
format the number) and I have tried to base my Word MERGEFIELD format
string on this but with no success.

I have so far only succeeded in getting the merged field to be
formatted as £12,345,678,000 using \# "£#,##0"

I have tried all sorts of formats and intermediate-value-formulae
including "SET ..." and "/ 1000000" but nothing works.

Can anyone help, please?

[Graham Mayor]

You must enter the brackets with CTRL+F9. You cannot simply type them. It
works in 2007 just fine.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Ron West wrote:
Sorry - this does not work in Word 2007 (SP1). It says

!Syntax Error, {

where the formatted number should be.

RW


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You need a calculated field to divide by 1000000 i.e.

{={Mergefield Fieldname} / 1000000 \# "$,0.000m"}

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org







Ron West wrote:
Hi, I've been given the task of fixing a Mail Merge that worked fine
in Office 2000 but loses the Excel cell-formatting when run under
Office 2007. I understand this is due to the new Office using some
form of ADO instead of DDE to transfer the data.

So, I've been looking at Word formatting pages such as
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm but I'm still
having a lot of trouble getting anything remotely complex to work in
Word 2007.

My need is to take a number such as 12345678000 from an Excel
cell and format it in Word as £12,345.678m (ie, shown to 3
decimal places of millions).

The original formatting string in Excel was £#,##0.000,,"m"
(which seems to auto-divide by 1 million for display purposes as
well as format the number) and I have tried to base my Word
MERGEFIELD format string on this but with no success.

I have so far only succeeded in getting the merged field to be
formatted as £12,345,678,000 using \# "£#,##0"

I have tried all sorts of formats and intermediate-value-formulae
including "SET ..." and "/ 1000000" but nothing works.

Can anyone help, please?