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TimW TimW is offline
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Default decimal spaces toolong when mail merging from excel

It works. I tried.

"punkyh" wrote:


Thank you for the quick response!
I have done this and it still doesn't work.

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Try toolsoptionscalculations and select precision as displayed before
doing the mailmerge

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom


"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?