Help with mail merge

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Gaby_e7

I'm trying to send letter to my costumers, im using mail merge, but
have a problem, with the dates, when i do the mail merge thing i
displays the dates as: 2/6/04 i want to see in it a different
way something like feb/6/2004 (i see it like this in excel) but when i
comes to word i see it like 2/6/04 can you help me
 
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Dave Peterson

From a previous post:


You could use some helper cells and create strings for each field--then use
those helper values:

=text(a1,"dd-mmm-yyyy")
=text(b1,"0.0")
=text(c1,"#,##0.00")

or you could do some magic at the MSWord side.

Debra Dalgleish posted this for a different question, but I bet you could modify
it (multiple times!):

In the Mail Merge, after you select your Excel file as a data source,
you should see a 'Confirm Data Source' dialog box.
(If you don't see the dialog box, change the setting in Word --
under Tools>Options, General -- add a check mark to
'Confirm Conversion at Open')

From that list, choose 'MS Excel Worksheets via DDE (*.xls)', and your
formatting will be retained.

If you have to connect through a different source, you can format the
fields in the Word document. For example, to specify a number of decimals:

1. In Word, in the Main Document, press Alt+F9 to view the field codes.
2. Find the field code for the number. It will look something like:
{ MERGEFIELD FieldName }
3. Add a switch, to format the number with two decimal places.
For example:
{ MERGEFIELD FieldName \# "#,##0.00" }
4. Press Alt+F9 to hide the field codes.
5. Save the Main Document
 
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