[TLH]

I could not get the formula listed in
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
to work for me. So I upgraded to Word 2007 and I still can not get my merged
decimal number to format as a percentage. Any other suggestions?

Thank you!

[Peter Jamieson]

So what result did the fields suggested by Graham give?

The most common problem is that people do not use the special field code
braces {} that you can insert usgin ctrl-F9 for every pair of {} in the
formula.


In this case, supposing your percentage column is called percent,
a. what is the result of { MERGEFIELD percent } ?
b. if you select { MERGEFIELD percent } then use ctrl-F9 to insert {}
around it

{ { MERGEFIELD percent } }

then type extra text to give you the following

{ ={ MERGEFIELD percent }*100 }

what result does that give?

Then type a little bit more to give you

{ ={ MERGEFIELD percent }*100 \#0% }

What result does that give?

Peter Jamieson

"TLH" wrote in message
...
I could not get the formula listed in
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
to work for me. So I upgraded to Word 2007 and I still can not get my
merged
decimal number to format as a percentage. Any other suggestions?

Thank you!

[Graham Mayor]

Peter Jamieson wrote:
The most common problem is that people do not use the special field
code braces {} that you can insert using ctrl-F9 for every pair of {}
in the formula.

And that is despite the warning in red and in a larger font at the start of
the page

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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

[Peter Jamieson]

Yes, I suppose now that hyperlinking/hypertext became widespread it's too
much to ask that people should actually begin at the beginning of anything.
But perhaps that's not the problem in this case - you never know :-)

Peter Jamieson

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Peter Jamieson wrote:
The most common problem is that people do not use the special field
code braces {} that you can insert using ctrl-F9 for every pair of {}
in the formula.

And that is despite the warning in red and in a larger font at the start
of the page

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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