Date import using numerical abbreviations - 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. Nightowl4933 11/28/2008 8:33:01 PM I might be too optimistic in trying to achieve this, but is it possible to format a mailmerged date in Word to include the abbreviations *st, *rd and *nd, showing 1st December 2008, for example? Thank you,

Re: Date import using numerical abbreviations - 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. "macropod" <macropod[ at ]invalid.invalid> 11/28/2008 8:41:11 PM Hi Nightowl4933, To see how to do this and just about everything else you might want to do with dates in Word, check out my Date Calc 'tutorial', at: http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=249902 or http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#Third_party In particular, look at the item titled 'Insert A Date with Ordinal Numbering'. Do read the document's introductory material. For your purposes, you could replace the 'DATE' strings in either of these fields with your mergefield. -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Nightowl4933" <Nightowl4933[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E2FB1E8E-9498-4EBA-AB97-4821C6899CFB[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I might be too optimistic in trying to achieve this, but is it possible to > format a mailmerged date in Word to include the abbreviations *st, *rd and > *nd, showing 1st December 2008, for example? > > Thank you, >

RE: Date import using numerical abbreviations - 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. Nightowl4933 11/28/2008 8:49:01 PM Oops. Sorted this with a lot of help from here http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm Thanks anyway, "Nightowl4933" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I might be too optimistic in trying to achieve this, but is it possible to > format a mailmerged date in Word to include the abbreviations *st, *rd and > *nd, showing 1st December 2008, for example? > > Thank you, >