[SH]

In doing a mail merge in Word 2007 my dollar signs and decimal places don't
carry over from my Access query. Suggestions?

[dave]

On May 14, 12:49 pm, SH wrote:
In doing a mail merge in Word 2007 my dollar signs and decimal places don't
carry over from my Access query. Suggestions?

right click on the field, clikc on toggle field codes. make it look
like this MERGEFIELD your field name\#$,##0.00

[Graham Mayor]

The extra hashes are superfluous \# "$,0.00" or \# $,0.00 (I prefer to use
the quotes) will work equally well
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


dave wrote:
On May 14, 12:49 pm, SH wrote:
In doing a mail merge in Word 2007 my dollar signs and decimal
places don't carry over from my Access query. Suggestions?

right click on the field, clikc on toggle field codes. make it look
like this MERGEFIELD your field name\#$,##0.00

[SH]

This worked also - thanks very much. SH

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The extra hashes are superfluous \# "$,0.00" or \# $,0.00 (I prefer to use
the quotes) will work equally well
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


dave wrote:
On May 14, 12:49 pm, SH wrote:
In doing a mail merge in Word 2007 my dollar signs and decimal
places don't carry over from my Access query. Suggestions?

right click on the field, clikc on toggle field codes. make it look
like this MERGEFIELD your field name\#$,##0.00

[SH]

It worked - thanks much for your help. SH

"dave" wrote:

On May 14, 12:49 pm, SH wrote:
In doing a mail merge in Word 2007 my dollar signs and decimal places don't
carry over from my Access query. Suggestions?

right click on the field, clikc on toggle field codes. make it look
like this MERGEFIELD your field name\#$,##0.00