Today I was using a merge file set up in excel and merging to a Word
document.

In the finished Word document all the dates of birth had been altered from
the dd/mm/yyyy format which we use here in New Zealand, to mm/dd/yyyy.

No matter what I did it persisted in changing them round. I have never run
up against this problem before, has anyone any ideas of how I can fix it?

We are running Windows 2000 Prof, Office 2003.
Can you please reply to the group? Many thanks
P