dropping leading zeros in mail merge

[Jim]

I use form letters for mailing to customers. Within the letters the model
year displays as a 2 digit year (98, 00). Everytime a vehicle year has
leading zeros the filed drops the leading zero. Editing the field and
telling ti to insert a zero is of no use as it adds the zero 98 also. This
was not an issue with office 2000 does anyone know how it can become not an
issue with 2003?

 

[leftnotracks]

Try putting quotes around the year. With quotes, the data is a string, not a
number.

 

[Doug Robbins]

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.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Graham Mayor]

A simple number switch :

{Mergefield datefieldname \# "00"}

should work

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