formatting date mergefield in format "19-01-2008", not "1/19/2008"

[Peter J. Veger]

I am using Word 2003/Windows XP (and Word2007/Vista)
When mailmerging,
with Word Dutch language setting for document (local short date format
dd-mm-yyyy),
with Windows English UK Regional/language options (with short date format
dd-mm-yyyy),
I get for a date as inserted Word Field the format mm-dd-yyy.

Why? and what to do to get dates in the format dd-mm-yyyy?

Peter J. Veger

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See 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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