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Formatting Mail Merge
Michele 12/5/2008 5:01:01 PM
In my merge the cents are not coming through from Excel if they are zeros. I
have formatted Excel to use currency with two decimal places. If the number
is whole the merge does not bring over the two zeros and I need them. Can
anyone help me out? I have fixed this problem in the past and cannot remember
how.

Thanks,
Michele
Re: Formatting Mail Merge
"macropod" <macropod[ at ]invalid.invalid> 12/5/2008 9:18:33 PM
Hi Michele,

In Word, add a numeric picture switch to the mergefield. To do this:
.. select the field;
.. press Ctrl-F9 to reveal the field coding. It should look something like {MERGEFIELD MyData};
.. edit the field so that you get {MERGEFIELD MyData \# $,0.00};
.. position the cursor anywhere in this field and press F9 to update it;
.. run your mailmerge.

Note: If you don't want the thousands separator (eg $1,000.00), delete the ',' in '$,0.00' from the formatting switch.

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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Michele" <Michele [ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:047EB309-5181-4BF2-B02A-AC64881FAD59[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text]
> In my merge the cents are not coming through from Excel if they are zeros. I
> have formatted Excel to use currency with two decimal places. If the number
> is whole the merge does not bring over the two zeros and I need them. Can
> anyone help me out? I have fixed this problem in the past and cannot remember
> how.
>
> Thanks,
> Michele

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