Merging with an excel document

[MC]

I have created my master document in word, selected the excel file to merge
with, and inserted my merge fields. When I merge the word document with the
excel file the currency that is merging from excel to word no longer appears
as currency, it appears as a regular number. Ex. Excel $18,002.06 - Word
18002.06 How can I fix this problem?

 

[Rich/rerat]

MC,
Graham Mayor has an excellent site about switches:
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

For your situation you should add the following switch for the currency
mergefield:

{mergefield total \# "$,0.00;($,0.00)"}
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Rich/rerat

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I have created my master document in word, selected the excel file to merge
with, and inserted my merge fields. When I merge the word document with the
excel file the currency that is merging from excel to word no longer appears
as currency, it appears as a regular number. Ex. Excel $18,002.06 - Word
18002.06 How can I fix this problem?

 

[MC]

The website Rich/rerat has excellent information on several formating issues
that arise when merging with an excel document.