Mail merge date format change

[Peter]

I am having problems maintaining the international date
format in a mail merge. In my Excel database the entries
are in UK format but when I merge them into a Word
document the formatting is changed to US. I can't find
anyway to change stop this from happening; have tried
using the \*MERGEFORMAT field codes, have tried changing
the default Word document language to English (UK).....No
Luck! Any help greatly appreciated!

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Peter,

See the "Dates: day/month reversed" item under the "Connection methods"
topic of the "Mail merge in Word 2002" section of fellow MVP Cindy
Meister's website at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP