number style to merge to Word

[BK]

Using Office 2003.

I have an Excel data table that includes a column of dollar amounts. Some
of these amounts are four or five digits and are formatted in Excel to use
the comma separator for thousands.

When I merge this Excel data into a form letter in Word, the comma separator
does not carry forward into the Word document, so now the four and five
digit numbers become difficult to read. I don't want to have to manually go
back into every merged document (too many!!!) to manually add the comma as
the thousands separator.

Any suggestions???

 

[Dave Peterson]

(Saved from a previous post.)

Debra Dalgleish posted this:

There's an article on the Microsoft web site that might help you:

Answer Box: Numbers don't merge right in Word
http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/assistance/HA011164951033.aspx

And if you prefer the old Mail Merge helper, Word MVP Suzanne Barnhill
has instructions here:

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CustomizingWord2002.htm

about half way down the page.

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I often cheat instead of racking my brain.

I'll insert another column (probably hidden!) and use:
=text(a2,"00000")
(or whatever format I want)
and use that field in the mailmerge.

 

[BK]

Thanks, Dave. I tried the first two options in the Microsoft Answer Box
article and both worked perfectly. Thanks so much.