In article , ?B?RkxZTk5F?= wrote:
Mail Merge problem
The Excel data file contains two columns labelled as Day and Date
respectively.

The Date column contains sequential dates in the format " 26th September
2008".
The main word document contains the <<Day and <<Date mergefields.

However when the word document is merged with data file the date is
displayed as 26/09/2008 and not as 26th September 2008.

The day is displayed correctly.

How do I rectify this problem ?

Sounds like you need to link to the XL data using DDE and not one of the
other methods available. That solved a heap of format problems I had. :)