marge - excel to word

[Albany]

i hope someone give me a hand. I am making the cretificate for the language
school student, and need to put the start ($Intake_Date) and finish date
($finish_date) on it.

On my excel data sheet, the date is entered as "2 September 2004", for
example. then i closed the excel file, opened a certificate template in
microsoft word, "tool -> letters & mailings -> mail merge wizard", and
selected the excel list up.

i got "Mail Merge Recipients" window with all column headings, which i want,
however, the finish date always go back to the number, i.e., "9/2/2004",
plus American date style. how can I get the month as "September" for
instance, not the number "9", also British date format (date/month/year)?
the merged word document shows "9/2/2004" as well.

i recreated from a scrach but it still happens. what should I check?

windows XP
office XP (office 2002) (10.6501.6626) SP3

anything you can suggest me would be appreciated.
thanx.

 

[Doug Robbins]

See "Formatting Word fields with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm


and 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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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Albany]

Thank you lots, Doug!

I learn something new today.
Albany