Mail Merge Dropping leading zeros

[richard via OfficeKB.com]

Hello -

I have a customer that is using MailMerge tp import zip codes into a table

When the feild is over 5 digits, i.e zip codes plus postal codes, it treats
it as alphebetic and all is well. However, the 5 digit zips are treated as
numeric and any and or all *leading* zeros get dropped.

I have been unable to recreate this in my lab... any ideas?

thanks in advance.

richard

 

[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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