Hi all,

I'm trying to use the rounded values in an excel spreadsheet as fields in my
mail merge. The merge pulls up the original number with many decimal places.
How do I get the merge to show the rounded value?

Thanks for your help!

Dory

Debra Dalgleish posted this:

There's an article on the Microsoft web site that might help you:

Answer Box: Numbers don't merge right in Word
http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/as...164951033.aspx

And if you prefer the old Mail Merge helper, Word MVP Suzanne Barnhill
has instructions he

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/C...ngWord2002.htm

about half way down the page.

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I often cheat instead of racking my brain.

I'll insert another column (probably hidden!) and use:
=text(a2,"ddmmyy")
or
=text(a2,"mm:ss.0")
or
=text(a2,"00000")
(or whatever format I want)
and use that field in the mailmerge.

(Cheating doesn't bother me anymore <vbg.)

dory a wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to use the rounded values in an excel spreadsheet as fields in my
mail merge. The merge pulls up the original number with many decimal places.
How do I get the merge to show the rounded value?

Thanks for your help!

Dory

--

Dave Peterson

In article , wrote:
Debra Dalgleish posted this:

There's an article on the Microsoft web site that might help you:

Answer Box: Numbers don't merge right in Word
http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/as...164951033.aspx

And if you prefer the old Mail Merge helper, Word MVP Suzanne Barnhill
has instructions he

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/C...ngWord2002.htm

about half way down the page.

==========
I often cheat instead of racking my brain.

I'll insert another column (probably hidden!) and use:
=text(a2,"ddmmyy")
or
=text(a2,"mm:ss.0")
or
=text(a2,"00000")
(or whatever format I want)
and use that field in the mailmerge.

(Cheating doesn't bother me anymore <vbg.)

It's not cheating, it's an alternative way of doing something. :)
I've had format problems when mail merging before. Fixed them by choosing
the ...
MS Excel worksheets via DDE (*.xls)
option when getting the data. Suddenly, I got what I expected again.

HTH

Thank you Dave and Bruce. It worked great!!!!

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Debra Dalgleish posted this:

There's an article on the Microsoft web site that might help you:

Answer Box: Numbers don't merge right in Word
http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/as...164951033.aspx

And if you prefer the old Mail Merge helper, Word MVP Suzanne Barnhill
has instructions he

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/C...ngWord2002.htm

about half way down the page.

==========
I often cheat instead of racking my brain.

I'll insert another column (probably hidden!) and use:
=text(a2,"ddmmyy")
or
=text(a2,"mm:ss.0")
or
=text(a2,"00000")
(or whatever format I want)
and use that field in the mailmerge.

(Cheating doesn't bother me anymore <vbg.)

dory a wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to use the rounded values in an excel spreadsheet as fields in my
mail merge. The merge pulls up the original number with many decimal places.
How do I get the merge to show the rounded value?

Thanks for your help!

Dory

--

Dave Peterson