Dollar signs from Access data to Word in a Mail Merge?

[SH]

In doing a mail merge in Word 2007 my dollar signs and decimal places don't
carry over from my Access query. Suggestions?

 

[dave]

In doing a mail merge in Word 2007 my dollar signs and decimal places don't
carry over from my Access query. Suggestions?

right click on the field, clikc on toggle field codes. make it look
like this MERGEFIELD your field name\#$,##0.00

 

[Graham Mayor]

The extra hashes are superfluous \# "$,0.00" or \# $,0.00 (I prefer to use
the quotes) will work equally well
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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[SH]

It worked - thanks much for your help. SH

right click on the field, clikc on toggle field codes. make it look
like this MERGEFIELD your field name\#$,##0.00

 

[SH]

This worked also - thanks very much. SH

The extra hashes are superfluous \# "$,0.00" or \# $,0.00 (I prefer to use
the quotes) will work equally well
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP


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