Date import using numerical abbreviations - 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.

[Nightowl4933]

I might be too optimistic in trying to achieve this, but is it possible to
format a mailmerged date in Word to include the abbreviations *st, *rd and
*nd, showing 1st December 2008, for example?

Thank you,

 

[macropod]

Hi Nightowl4933,

To see how to do this and just about everything else you might want to do with dates in Word, check out my Date Calc 'tutorial', at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=249902
or
http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#Third_party
In particular, look at the item titled 'Insert A Date with Ordinal Numbering'. Do read the document's introductory material.

For your purposes, you could replace the 'DATE' strings in either of these fields with your mergefield.

 

[Nightowl4933]

Oops. Sorted this with a lot of help from here
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

Thanks anyway,