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Dollar signs from Access data to Word in a Mail Merge?
SH 5/14/2007 4:49:01 PM
In doing a mail merge in Word 2007 my dollar signs and decimal places don't
carry over from my Access query. Suggestions?
Re: Dollar signs from Access data to Word in a Mail Merge?
dave <dlevy[ at ]nyc.rr.com> 5/14/2007 5:27:11 PM
On May 14, 12:49 pm, SH <S...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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> In doing a mail merge in Word 2007 my dollar signs and decimal places don't
> carry over from my Access query. Suggestions?

right click on the field, clikc on toggle field codes. make it look
like this MERGEFIELD your field name\#$,##0.00

Re: Dollar signs from Access data to Word in a Mail Merge?
"Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> 5/15/2007 5:12:27 AM
The extra hashes are superfluous \# "$,0.00" or \# $,0.00 (I prefer to use
the quotes) will work equally well
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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dave wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> On May 14, 12:49 pm, SH <S...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> In doing a mail merge in Word 2007 my dollar signs and decimal
>> places don't carry over from my Access query. Suggestions?
>
> right click on the field, clikc on toggle field codes. make it look
> like this MERGEFIELD your field name\#$,##0.00


Re: Dollar signs from Access data to Word in a Mail Merge?
SH 5/15/2007 4:17:01 PM
It worked - thanks much for your help. SH

"dave" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> On May 14, 12:49 pm, SH <S...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > In doing a mail merge in Word 2007 my dollar signs and decimal places don't
> > carry over from my Access query. Suggestions?
>
> right click on the field, clikc on toggle field codes. make it look
> like this MERGEFIELD your field name\#$,##0.00
>
>
Re: Dollar signs from Access data to Word in a Mail Merge?
SH 5/15/2007 4:18:01 PM
This worked also - thanks very much. SH

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> The extra hashes are superfluous \# "$,0.00" or \# $,0.00 (I prefer to use
> the quotes) will work equally well
> http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
>
> --
> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
> Graham Mayor - Word MVP
>
> My web site www.gmayor.com
> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
>
> dave wrote:
> > On May 14, 12:49 pm, SH <S...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >> In doing a mail merge in Word 2007 my dollar signs and decimal
> >> places don't carry over from my Access query. Suggestions?
> >
> > right click on the field, clikc on toggle field codes. make it look
> > like this MERGEFIELD your field name\#$,##0.00
>
>
>

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