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iamdevoe

Not printing 0 in zipcodes from excel spreadsheet.
 
When I merge into labels in word it is not printing the 0 of the zipcodes
that start with a 0. I have tried putting a ' in front of it.

Thanks, Christy


Dave Peterson

Not printing 0 in zipcodes from excel spreadsheet.
 
Did you put the apostrophe in the data in excel?

'01234

I've don't think I've seen that fail with mailmerge.

But....

Debra Dalgleish posted this to a similar question:

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://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/...ngWord2002.htm

about half way down the page.

iamdevoe wrote:

When I merge into labels in word it is not printing the 0 of the zipcodes
that start with a 0. I have tried putting a ' in front of it.

Thanks, Christy


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Dave Peterson


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