formatting one field to a dollar amount

[Jackie]

I am trying to format one field in a mail merge letter
document to read as a dollar amount, as in $25,000 or
$5,000 instead of showing 25000 or 5000. How can I do
this? Switching to field codes is not working, when I do
that it doesn't merge the info or it just produces the
same thing of 25000.

thanks

 

[Greg]

Jackie,

You need to put a switch in your merge field.
Have a look at Graham Mayor's tips here:
http://www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
There is a piece covering exactly what you need.