That is the serial date number. Just format the cell as a date
(FormatCellsDate)

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HTH

Bob

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"olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message
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Hello,
I'm having a problem understanding how to correct the change in date
format
from my mail merge. I've read Cindy Meister's pages and can't quite find
what I need. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm
Office Suite 2003, Data Source is Excel '03, merging into Word '03. The
date format in the data source is custom d-mmm, (30-June) and after the
merge
becomes 39263. I believe I understand what the number means, but have no
idea how to change it back to a date that others will understand.

Please help.
TIA,
John