marge - excel to word

From: Albany (summer_waterplace_at_yahoo.co.nz)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:16:31 +1200

i hope someone give me a hand. I am making the cretificate for the language
school student, and need to put the start ($Intake_Date) and finish date
($finish_date) on it.

On my excel data ***, the date is entered as "2 September 2004", for
example. then i closed the excel file, opened a certificate template in
microsoft word, "tool -> letters & mailings -> mail merge wizard", and
selected the excel list up.

i got "Mail Merge Recipients" window with all column headings, which i want,
however, the finish date always go back to the number, i.e., "9/2/2004",
plus American date style. how can I get the month as "September" for
instance, not the number "9", also British date format (date/month/year)?
the merged word document shows "9/2/2004" as well.

i recreated from a scrach but it still happens. what should I check? :(

windows XP
office XP (office 2002) (10.6501.6626) SP3

anything you can suggest me would be appreciated.
thanx.