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Date format to Text Date for use in Mail Merge
I have everyone's start date in a column. I'd like to create another column
with their start date in text so that I can then use it in a mail merge for their certificates. I've got it converted but the MM/DD/YYYY is behind the scenes and when I do the merge that comes over versus Month Day, Year. Any help? |
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Date format to Text Date for use in Mail Merge
You can do the formatting Word but in ahelper column
=TEXT(A1,"mmmm dd") adjust what's in the quotes to suit. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:31:03 -0700, Erinayn wrote: I have everyone's start date in a column. I'd like to create another column with their start date in text so that I can then use it in a mail merge for their certificates. I've got it converted but the MM/DD/YYYY is behind the scenes and when I do the merge that comes over versus Month Day, Year. Any help? |
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Date format to Text Date for use in Mail Merge
You can use field codes to do this without having an additional column in
your worksheet. If you insert a Date field into the main document and then press ALT+F9, you see as below { MERGEFIELD "Date" } To get all the dates in the merged documents to have a format you want; you can add this formatting switch to the field code: To display as January 1, 2010 try { MERGEFIELD "Date" \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" } -- Jacob (MVP - Excel) "Erinayn" wrote: I have everyone's start date in a column. I'd like to create another column with their start date in text so that I can then use it in a mail merge for their certificates. I've got it converted but the MM/DD/YYYY is behind the scenes and when I do the merge that comes over versus Month Day, Year. Any help? |
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Date format to Text Date for use in Mail Merge
Forgot to mention; this query should have been posted in 'Word discussion
groups'.. -- Jacob (MVP - Excel) "Jacob Skaria" wrote: You can use field codes to do this without having an additional column in your worksheet. If you insert a Date field into the main document and then press ALT+F9, you see as below { MERGEFIELD "Date" } To get all the dates in the merged documents to have a format you want; you can add this formatting switch to the field code: To display as January 1, 2010 try { MERGEFIELD "Date" \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" } -- Jacob (MVP - Excel) "Erinayn" wrote: I have everyone's start date in a column. I'd like to create another column with their start date in text so that I can then use it in a mail merge for their certificates. I've got it converted but the MM/DD/YYYY is behind the scenes and when I do the merge that comes over versus Month Day, Year. Any help? |
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