Mailmerge Date problem

[Anthony Viscomi]

My source is a MS Access query; my problem is the way the merged date is
displayed in the mailmerge document:
2006-03-20 00:00:00

How do I get it to display in this format? March 20, 2006?

Thanks in advance!
Anthony

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Try the following:
a. use Alt-F9 to display the merge field, which will probably look
something like

{ MERGEFIELD mydate }

or

{ MERGEFIELD mydate \*Mergeformat }

Type a "date format switch" after "mydate " so the field looks like

{ MERGEFIELD mydate \@"MMMM D, YYYY" }

or

{ MERGEFIELD mydate \@"MMMM D, YYYY" \*Mergeformat }

Select the field and press F9 to "execute" it, then press Alt-F9 and try the
merge again.

Peter Jamieson