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date formatting in Word 2007
Formatting dates in Word and print merge has always been "interesting"! Now
I have a trial version of Word 2007 and am battling with the same problem: my date needs to have a UK format but arrives in an American one (although the input [Excel sheet] shows the date in UK format). Annoying .... How do I get to see field codes in Word 2007 and what should the correct one be? I tried the one I've used before { MERGEFIELD mydate \@"DD/MM/YYYY" \*Mergeformat } but ended up with a date at the top of my document although I thought I put it in the correct location. Sorry don't know where to find the version no. - gosh this is a pain. |
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Hi w3dys,
This does rather sound like you inserted the mergefield in the wrong place ... Try cutting & pasting it to the correct location. As for revealing the field codes, did you try toggling them via Alt-F9? Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "w3dys" wrote in message ... | Formatting dates in Word and print merge has always been "interesting"! Now | I have a trial version of Word 2007 and am battling with the same problem: my | date needs to have a UK format but arrives in an American one (although the | input [Excel sheet] shows the date in UK format). Annoying .... | | How do I get to see field codes in Word 2007 and what should the correct one | be? I tried the one I've used before { MERGEFIELD mydate \@"DD/MM/YYYY" | \*Mergeformat } but ended up with a date at the top of my document although I | thought I put it in the correct location. | | Sorry don't know where to find the version no. - gosh this is a pain. | |
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date formatting in Word 2007
See the "Dates: day/month reversed" item under the "Connection methods"
topic of the "Mail merge in Word 2002" section of fellow MVP Cindy Meister's website at http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm -- 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 "w3dys" wrote in message ... Formatting dates in Word and print merge has always been "interesting"! Now I have a trial version of Word 2007 and am battling with the same problem: my date needs to have a UK format but arrives in an American one (although the input [Excel sheet] shows the date in UK format). Annoying .... How do I get to see field codes in Word 2007 and what should the correct one be? I tried the one I've used before { MERGEFIELD mydate \@"DD/MM/YYYY" \*Mergeformat } but ended up with a date at the top of my document although I thought I put it in the correct location. Sorry don't know where to find the version no. - gosh this is a pain. |
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