Formatting a Merge field from xls doc

[Nat]

I have a Word 03 document that is merging data from an Excel 03 spreadsheet,
and even though the data is formatted as currency ($#,###.00) when it is
inserted into the Word merge document it has no formatting. Do I have to
format the merge field in the Word document, and if so does anyone know how?
This is being done using Word & Excel 07 BTW.

Thanks a lot,

 

[CyberTaz]

Short Story: The formatting in Excel is exactly that - *formatting* - which
is a property of the cell, not literal characters in the data.

Long Story: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/MailMerge/index.htm

 

[Graham Mayor]

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

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[Nat]

Thanks so much Graham. this was helpful as it provides 2 solutions: Either
format with switch, or choose the way Word communicates with XLS data source.
I have chosen the former, however I could not get the \# ",0.00" to work for
some reason so I tweaked it slightly. My solutions was to add the following
switch [\ # #,##0.00.

Not sure why it works but it does. Thanks again,

Nat

 

[Graham Mayor]

More curious is why the original switch didn't work, my guess would be smart
quotes in the field construction, but yours should do the job.

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Thanks so much Graham. this was helpful as it provides 2 solutions:
Either format with switch, or choose the way Word communicates with
XLS data source. I have chosen the former, however I could not get
the \# ",0.00" to work for some reason so I tweaked it slightly. My
solutions was to add the following switch [\ # #,##0.00.

Not sure why it works but it does. Thanks again,

Nat

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

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