=TEXT(A2,"(000) 000-0000")
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David Biddulph

"smartgal" wrote in message
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I am doing a mail merge and one of the fields is a phone number. I format
it
in excel to look like a phone number but when I merge it just comes over
as
seven numbers - no parens, no dash, etc. Ideally I'd like to still enter
it
as a straight number, as I am now, but have another field that could
"translate" it into the following format: (xxx) xxx-xxxx.

Thanks!