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.

Maybe it'll be easier to understand.



Pierre wrote:

Maybe someone here knows.

In merging Excel data to a sheet in MS Word, the original numbers in
Excel are very simple:
examples: 2.16 or 4.98 or 108.45. (I've even re-entered the numbers in
this column to be just sure the data length is as shown.)
However, upon merging the column containing these numbers, the
resulting display is something like 2.1599999999999974+2 or
4.9799999999999999.

I looked briefly at Word's MERGEFIELD, but the nomenclature for
inserting a switch was not very clear. This is a head scratcher. Any
ideas?

Pierre

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Dave Peterson