In Wxcel, use

=TEXT(A1,"dd mmmm yyyy")

instead of the date field (A1 in this case)

--
Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"PaulW" wrote in message
...
Hi

I am merging some dates from an Excel s/s into Word but I want it to
arrive
in the

full length text string format (dd mmmmm yyyy) and not numerical

is it possible

thanks PW