Debra Dalgleish posted this to a similar question:

There's an article on the Microsoft web site that might help you:

Answer Box: Numbers don't merge right in Word
http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/as...164951033.aspx

And if you prefer the old Mail Merge helper, Word MVP Suzanne Barnhill
has instructions he

http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/...ngWord2002.htm

about half way down the page.

Karen wrote:

1. When I mail merge my excel data into word invoices the currency formatting
is lost, so I have to manually go into each documen and correct it?
2. Another problem in excel is that in some of my formulas these huge
incorrect decimal places appear even though I have set the cell formatting to
'currency, 2 decimal places'
I am using excel 2003

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Dave Peterson