Re: marge - excel to word

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From: Doug Robbins (dkr_at_NOmvpsSPAM.org)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 05:27:56 -0400

See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

and 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/cindymeister/MergFram.htm 

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Albany" <summer_waterplace@yahoo.co.nz> wrote in message 
news:eXDCFtUkEHA.2804@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>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.
>
>
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