Importing from Excel

[Doreen]

Word and Excel 2002

I'm importing from Excel to Word.

When I import what looks like $12,000 in Excel, it becomes 12000 in Word. I
understand that's because the data is 12000 and in Excel I've formatted it
with Currency and Comma styles.

My question is, what's the easiest way to get $12,000 in Word without having
to manually fix each entry?

Thanks in advance.

Doreen

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There are two ways to approach this. In a mail merge, you can add a numeric
picture switch to the merge field. Or you can connect to Excel via DDE
instead of OLEDB. For more on both, see
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MM2002/MM2002.htm

 

[Doreen]

thanks, I'm a little unclear how to do it for percentages (its 7% in excel,
but 0.07 in word)

any ideas?

D

 

[Graham Mayor]

{ =({Mergefield Fieldname} * 100) \# "#%"}

Use a formatting switch on the field -
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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