Re: Percent Merge from Excel to Word
- From: "Peter Jamieson" <pjj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 23:40:48 +0100
{ ={Mergefield FTE} *100\# "0%"}
Usually, the problem is caused by using the regular keyboard characters for
the { and } surrounding the merge field, instead of inserting them using
ctrl-F9.
It may make no diffeence, but I would also be careful with the spacing. Try:
{ ={ MERGEFIELD FTE }*100 \# "0%" }
(the main thing is to ensure there is a space before the "\")
Peter Jamieson
"Marge" <Marge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have been dealing with this lovely Merge issue - and I'm getting pretty
good with the switches for Excel sheets I cannot convert to text. But I
have
one that will not follow the rules. I have an Excel spreadsheet with a
column
of numbers that are formatted as percent, with two decimal places. The
Word
document has a merge field (called FTE) in it based on this column in
Excel,
and without switches I get interesting numbers - 100% is 1.00, numbers
less
than 100% (i.e. .84%) appear with long integers 0.846348938943 , etc. I
have
tried the #\ switch, giving it all kinds of "formats" to show just two
digits
to the right of the decimal. I can get it to do that correctly, but I
cannot
get it to show anything other than a single "1" to the left of the decimal
(100% appears as 1, not 100). I have tried the calculating suggestion on
Mr.
Mayor's website { ={Mergefield FTE} *100\# "0%"} ... that gives me a
"Syntax
Error" in my Word document and does not merge. I tried re-writing that
caclulating merge field several ways, but I cannot get passed the Syntax
Error. Can anyone HELP me?
Thanks!
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