1000 separator not showing upon merge

[ANNIEhatesVISTA]

HELP! I have inserted a mergefield in a word document that merges with an
Excel sheet. The row in Excel is formatted as a number with a 1000 separator,
but when I merge the document the separator doesn't show. Instead of 100,000
I get 100000. How can I fix this?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

See Graham Mayor's page at http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

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

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


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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

 

[ANNIEhatesVISTA]

I had a copy of that document, but it told me to use "{}" brackets. The help
menu from 2007 Word (Vista) told me to use "()" brackets. I was only able to
get it to work using "[]" brackets. Hope this can help someone else as it
took me hours to figure it out on my own.

 

[Graham Mayor]

What language version of Word are you using? English versions of Worduse
curly brackets as field boundaries {}. In any case you don't have to enter
the brackets, you should already have them. Toggle the field display with
Alt+F9 and add the switch between the existing brackets.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP


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I had a copy of that document, but it told me to use "{}" brackets.
The help menu from 2007 Word (Vista) told me to use "()" brackets. I
was only able to get it to work using "[]" brackets. Hope this can
help someone else as it took me hours to figure it out on my own.

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

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