Merging from excel but the currency format changes on word!

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Lee

on hers either nowI have all the data showing correctly in excel but when i
merge it to Word, none of the currency figures show correctly. The symbol is
missing and there are no decimal places. This has only started happening
since i loaded office 2007 on. It use to merge fine on Office 2003.
I thought i would just use my bosses computer as we are networked and she
still has Office 2003 on hers but it won't work. Please help me?!
 
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Graham Mayor

See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
or
From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab
and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. (In Word
2007 it is Office Button > Word Options > Advanced > General > Confirm file
format conversion on open). Then when you attach the data source to the mail
merge main document, you will be given the option of using the DDE method of
connection which should read the data as you have it formatted in the table.

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Lee

I can not thank you enough! I've been on the phone for over 30mins to
microsoft help and he could not answer me, he is going to call me back in a
couple of hours with an answer he hopes.
It's amazing when something like this works, i didn't think i would get a
response, let alone it to be that quick and to solve my problem straight
away. Seriously, thank you very much!!! :)
 
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Graham Mayor

You are welcome :)

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