Date format to Text Date for use in Mail Merge

[Erinayn]

I have everyone's start date in a column. I'd like to create another column
with their start date in text so that I can then use it in a mail merge for
their certificates. I've got it converted but the MM/DD/YYYY is behind the
scenes and when I do the merge that comes over versus Month Day, Year.

Any help?

 

[broro183]

hi Erinayn,

This formula may help...
=TEXT(a2,"mm/dd/yyyy")

I haven't used mail merge before, but if you can't resolve it usin
formulae in the spreadsheet, you may be able to temporarily change you
system settings under Windows Start Menu - Control Panel - Regional
Language Options - Formats...

hth
Rob

 

[Gord Dibben]

You can do the formatting Word but in ahelper column

=TEXT(A1,"mmmm dd") adjust what's in the quotes to suit.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Jacob Skaria]

You can use field codes to do this without having an additional column in
your worksheet. If you insert a Date field into the main document and then
press ALT+F9, you see as below

{ MERGEFIELD "Date" }

To get all the dates in the merged documents to have a format you want; you
can add this formatting switch to the field code:

To display as January 1, 2010 try

{ MERGEFIELD "Date" \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" }

 

[Jacob Skaria]

Forgot to mention; this query should have been posted in 'Word discussion
groups'..