Why does the date change from english to american in mail merge diane morris 10/8/2008 5:17:03 PM I have been trying to do a mail merge from an excel document with dates in but when the dates go into the word document they are in an amercan form ie mm/dd/yy instead of dd/mm/yy can this be rectified

Re: Why does the date change from english to american in mail merge "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr[ at ]REMOVECAPSmvps.org> 10/8/2008 7:55:05 PM See the "Dates: day/month reversed" item under the "Connection methods" topic of the "Mail merge in Word 2002/2003" section of fellow MVP Cindy Meister's website at http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "diane morris" <diane morris[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:25F49296-B972-4512-9D18-44F3B61145CC[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I have been trying to do a mail merge from an excel document with dates in > but when the dates go into the word document they are in an amercan form > ie > mm/dd/yy instead of dd/mm/yy can this be rectified