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punkyh
 
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How do I do this?

Thank you for the answer because I was frustrated!

"Andy Wiggins" wrote:

Are you mail-merging into Word? If so, then you have to format the data
within the Word environment.

You will probably find that, in Excel, if you remove all the formatting then
the figures you see are those being merged into Word. It's this "raw" data
that Word sees and acts upon. For anyone using Office 97, how you format
your data in Excel is how Word uses it.

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Andy Wiggins FCCA
www.BygSoftware.com
Excel, Access and VBA Consultancy


"punkyh" wrote in message
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I recive data in an excel spreadsheet that contains in one column a number
expressed as " 5.55" which is supposed to be a percentage, but when I try

to
mailmerge the data, it mailmerges as "5.55061561650660". In other words it
carries out the decimal place more than 2 digits, which is not what I

want. I
have tried formatting the cell, rounding, hand typing the information in
another column and deleting the column that contained the original
information (which I am sure was edited from 5.55061561650660.) How can I

fix
this problem so that when I mail merge it comes out as "5.55" only?