office 2003 mail merge problem

[Jeremy Byrne]

Hi,

I have a problem where when I mail merge an Excel 2003 file into Word 2003 I
lose my post codes unless I have my second line feature a letter rather than
a number. Some of my post codes are just numbers because some are in Nigeria
etc..

Has anyone else come across this problem and does any know of a proper fix
rather than just fudging it putting a fake address first?

If I use the same files on Office 2000 it works fine.

thanks,

Jeremy.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Jeremy,

You may want to also post this in the MS Word Mailmerge
newsgroup (link below). Is the post-code field/column
in excel formatted as text?

Mailmerge in Word 2002/2003 is different from earlier
editions.

========
Hi,

I have a problem where when I mail merge an Excel 2003 file into Word 2003 I
lose my post codes unless I have my second line feature a letter rather than
a number. Some of my post codes are just numbers because some are in Nigeria
etc..

Has anyone else come across this problem and does any know of a proper fix
rather than just fudging it putting a fake address first?

If I use the same files on Office 2000 it works fine.

thanks,

Jeremy>>
--
LLet us know if this has helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends8

A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
or via browser:
http://communities2.microsoft.com/c...us/?dg=microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Jeremy Byrne]

cheers I will post to that group as well.

No formatted as general....

Jeremy.