Mail merge drops leading zero from zip code 07001 comes out 7001

[Graham Mayor]

Use a formatting switch on the field -
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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[John]

Thank you for the information. It worked perfectly.

Though I am still confused as to why Word drops the leading zero.

 

[Merging Zip Code Errors]

This is cool, but what about when part of the list is a five digit zip and
part is 5+4? I checked out your website, but I don't want the five digit ones
to format as 12345+0000. I'd rather they just printed 12345. Any suggestions?
I don't want it to have to be an all for nothing deal.

 

[Doug Robbins]

Use

{ IF { MERGEFIELD Zip } > "99999" "{ MERGEFIELD Zip \# "00000'-'0000" }"
"{ MERGEFIELD Zip \# "00000" } }

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP