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custom date format changed in mail merge
Hello,
I'm having a problem understanding how to correct the change in date format from my mail merge. I've read Cindy Meister's pages and can't quite find what I need. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm Office Suite 2003, Data Source is Excel '03, merging into Word '03. The date format in the data source is custom d-mmm, (30-June) and after the merge becomes 39263. I believe I understand what the number means, but have no idea how to change it back to a date that others will understand. Please help. TIA, John |
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That is the serial date number. Just format the cell as a date
(FormatCellsDate) -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm having a problem understanding how to correct the change in date format from my mail merge. I've read Cindy Meister's pages and can't quite find what I need. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm Office Suite 2003, Data Source is Excel '03, merging into Word '03. The date format in the data source is custom d-mmm, (30-June) and after the merge becomes 39263. I believe I understand what the number means, but have no idea how to change it back to a date that others will understand. Please help. TIA, John |
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Hello Bob,
The format change occurs in the Word Mail Merge. I can format the cell in the Excel data source, but can't find an option to change it in Word. Revealing the formatting/Cell options are only the prefered width and text alignment. And from the Menu Bar/Format I'm not given that option. Do I need to look elsewhere? "Bob Phillips" wrote: That is the serial date number. Just format the cell as a date (FormatCellsDate) -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm having a problem understanding how to correct the change in date format from my mail merge. I've read Cindy Meister's pages and can't quite find what I need. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm Office Suite 2003, Data Source is Excel '03, merging into Word '03. The date format in the data source is custom d-mmm, (30-June) and after the merge becomes 39263. I believe I understand what the number means, but have no idea how to change it back to a date that others will understand. Please help. TIA, John |
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custom date format changed in mail merge
One option is to use a helper column in Excel =TEXT(A1,"d-mmm")
-- David Biddulph "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello Bob, The format change occurs in the Word Mail Merge. I can format the cell in the Excel data source, but can't find an option to change it in Word. Revealing the formatting/Cell options are only the prefered width and text alignment. And from the Menu Bar/Format I'm not given that option. Do I need to look elsewhere? "Bob Phillips" wrote: That is the serial date number. Just format the cell as a date (FormatCellsDate) "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm having a problem understanding how to correct the change in date format from my mail merge. I've read Cindy Meister's pages and can't quite find what I need. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm Office Suite 2003, Data Source is Excel '03, merging into Word '03. The date format in the data source is custom d-mmm, (30-June) and after the merge becomes 39263. I believe I understand what the number means, but have no idea how to change it back to a date that others will understand. Please help. TIA, John |
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How about a Word newsgroup?
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/index.htm -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello Bob, The format change occurs in the Word Mail Merge. I can format the cell in the Excel data source, but can't find an option to change it in Word. Revealing the formatting/Cell options are only the prefered width and text alignment. And from the Menu Bar/Format I'm not given that option. Do I need to look elsewhere? "Bob Phillips" wrote: That is the serial date number. Just format the cell as a date (FormatCellsDate) -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm having a problem understanding how to correct the change in date format from my mail merge. I've read Cindy Meister's pages and can't quite find what I need. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm Office Suite 2003, Data Source is Excel '03, merging into Word '03. The date format in the data source is custom d-mmm, (30-June) and after the merge becomes 39263. I believe I understand what the number means, but have no idea how to change it back to a date that others will understand. Please help. TIA, John |
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custom date format changed in mail merge
In Word:
Select the field code for the required date field: it will look something like: {MERGEFIELD "Date_1"} Place cursor after the second double quote (") and add \@ "dd MMM" < as shown below: {MERGEFIELD "Date_1" \@ "dd MMM"} This will give date as 30 Jun. note capital M: this is mandatory You change format to suit e.g. dd-MMM-yyyy HTH "olrustyxlsuser" wrote: Hello Bob, The format change occurs in the Word Mail Merge. I can format the cell in the Excel data source, but can't find an option to change it in Word. Revealing the formatting/Cell options are only the prefered width and text alignment. And from the Menu Bar/Format I'm not given that option. Do I need to look elsewhere? "Bob Phillips" wrote: That is the serial date number. Just format the cell as a date (FormatCellsDate) -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm having a problem understanding how to correct the change in date format from my mail merge. I've read Cindy Meister's pages and can't quite find what I need. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm Office Suite 2003, Data Source is Excel '03, merging into Word '03. The date format in the data source is custom d-mmm, (30-June) and after the merge becomes 39263. I believe I understand what the number means, but have no idea how to change it back to a date that others will understand. Please help. TIA, John |
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custom date format changed in mail merge
Another option: In Word, use a numeric picture switch on the merge field.
See Word help for Numeric Picture switch. -- Good Luck, Peg "olrustyxlsuser" wrote: Hello Bob, The format change occurs in the Word Mail Merge. I can format the cell in the Excel data source, but can't find an option to change it in Word. Revealing the formatting/Cell options are only the prefered width and text alignment. And from the Menu Bar/Format I'm not given that option. Do I need to look elsewhere? "Bob Phillips" wrote: That is the serial date number. Just format the cell as a date (FormatCellsDate) -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm having a problem understanding how to correct the change in date format from my mail merge. I've read Cindy Meister's pages and can't quite find what I need. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm Office Suite 2003, Data Source is Excel '03, merging into Word '03. The date format in the data source is custom d-mmm, (30-June) and after the merge becomes 39263. I believe I understand what the number means, but have no idea how to change it back to a date that others will understand. Please help. TIA, John |
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custom date format changed in mail merge
Thanks for you input, David. I'll try this out tomorrow and see if I can get
it to work. Additionally, be sure I'll post my successes/failures to keep this thread informed. "David Biddulph" wrote: One option is to use a helper column in Excel =TEXT(A1,"d-mmm") -- David Biddulph "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello Bob, The format change occurs in the Word Mail Merge. I can format the cell in the Excel data source, but can't find an option to change it in Word. Revealing the formatting/Cell options are only the prefered width and text alignment. And from the Menu Bar/Format I'm not given that option. Do I need to look elsewhere? "Bob Phillips" wrote: That is the serial date number. Just format the cell as a date (FormatCellsDate) "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm having a problem understanding how to correct the change in date format from my mail merge. I've read Cindy Meister's pages and can't quite find what I need. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm Office Suite 2003, Data Source is Excel '03, merging into Word '03. The date format in the data source is custom d-mmm, (30-June) and after the merge becomes 39263. I believe I understand what the number means, but have no idea how to change it back to a date that others will understand. Please help. TIA, John |
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custom date format changed in mail merge
Another option: In Word, look at help for Date Picture switch. You can
format the mergefield using that switch. -- Good Luck, Peg "olrustyxlsuser" wrote: Hello Bob, The format change occurs in the Word Mail Merge. I can format the cell in the Excel data source, but can't find an option to change it in Word. Revealing the formatting/Cell options are only the prefered width and text alignment. And from the Menu Bar/Format I'm not given that option. Do I need to look elsewhere? "Bob Phillips" wrote: That is the serial date number. Just format the cell as a date (FormatCellsDate) -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm having a problem understanding how to correct the change in date format from my mail merge. I've read Cindy Meister's pages and can't quite find what I need. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm Office Suite 2003, Data Source is Excel '03, merging into Word '03. The date format in the data source is custom d-mmm, (30-June) and after the merge becomes 39263. I believe I understand what the number means, but have no idea how to change it back to a date that others will understand. Please help. TIA, John |
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David,
I was able to make you idea work. Thank you very much! John "David Biddulph" wrote: One option is to use a helper column in Excel =TEXT(A1,"d-mmm") -- David Biddulph "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello Bob, The format change occurs in the Word Mail Merge. I can format the cell in the Excel data source, but can't find an option to change it in Word. Revealing the formatting/Cell options are only the prefered width and text alignment. And from the Menu Bar/Format I'm not given that option. Do I need to look elsewhere? "Bob Phillips" wrote: That is the serial date number. Just format the cell as a date (FormatCellsDate) "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm having a problem understanding how to correct the change in date format from my mail merge. I've read Cindy Meister's pages and can't quite find what I need. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm Office Suite 2003, Data Source is Excel '03, merging into Word '03. The date format in the data source is custom d-mmm, (30-June) and after the merge becomes 39263. I believe I understand what the number means, but have no idea how to change it back to a date that others will understand. Please help. TIA, John |
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David,
Thank you, your idea was a simple fix and works nicely. I've tried to respond a few times already, so sorry if this is a repost. I just wanted to make sure anyone reading this thread knows that my question's been answered. "David Biddulph" wrote: One option is to use a helper column in Excel =TEXT(A1,"d-mmm") -- David Biddulph "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello Bob, The format change occurs in the Word Mail Merge. I can format the cell in the Excel data source, but can't find an option to change it in Word. Revealing the formatting/Cell options are only the prefered width and text alignment. And from the Menu Bar/Format I'm not given that option. Do I need to look elsewhere? "Bob Phillips" wrote: That is the serial date number. Just format the cell as a date (FormatCellsDate) "olrustyxlsuser" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm having a problem understanding how to correct the change in date format from my mail merge. I've read Cindy Meister's pages and can't quite find what I need. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm Office Suite 2003, Data Source is Excel '03, merging into Word '03. The date format in the data source is custom d-mmm, (30-June) and after the merge becomes 39263. I believe I understand what the number means, but have no idea how to change it back to a date that others will understand. Please help. TIA, John |
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