use a date switch in Word. See "Date-Time Picture (\@) field switch" in
Word Help.

For instance, if the XL field is named MyDate,

{ MERGEFIELD MyDate \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" }

In article ,
Brynn Wilson <Brynn wrote:

I have a document in Word and a document in Excel that I am using in a mail
merge. When I merge the documents the format that I have the date in does not
stay the same. I want the date to show up like, June 9, 2005 and what it
comes up with is 6/9/2005. Is there anything I can do about this? The only
thing I have found is to merge and then change the date format but then I
can't get the date that I want, there are certain options that I have to pick
from. Any ideas?