Mailmerge

[provdata]

What do I have to do to get "Mailmerge" to move the
leading zeros to the documents (especially the
envelopes). Many of the zip codes that I use are in New
England and they start with leading zeros, these do not
transfer to the envelope file.. When I print them they
show only a 4 digit zip code.

Help


Barry

 

[Doug Robbins]

Add a formatting switch as shown to the mergefield that returns the zip code

{ MERGEFIELD "ZIP" \# "00000"}

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[Chris W]

Doug,

I've tried adding the formatting switch below to the mergefield just as it
looks below, but it still returns a lack of a leading zero. Why is that? MS
OFfice 2003.

 

[Doug Robbins]

It works here with Word 2003.

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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Q2hyaXMgVw==?=,

I've tried adding the formatting switch below to the mergefield just as it
looks below, but it still returns a lack of a leading zero. Why is that? MS
OFfice 2003.

What's your data source?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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