No probs, Gord.
I hope that all is well with you, and best wishes for 2010

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Regards
Roger Govier

"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message
...
Error in post.

Roger........not Biff


Gord

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:22:45 -0800, Gord Dibben <gorddibbATshawDOTca
wrote:

You can format the fields at the Word end of the operation.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...164951033.aspx

But may be easier to use the TEXT function and helpers cells as Biff
points
out.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:00:01 -0800, Briggs

wrote:

I am merging a letter and an Excel worksheet. When I merge an Excel field
that contains $ and commas separating the hundreds and thousands, the $
and
the , do not show up in the merged letter. Any suggestions on how to
solve
this problem?


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