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Export of excel data to word
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Fri 22 Aug 2008, 16:38Delegate Shirley said...
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Export of excel data to word
dates in excel when exported to word mail merge appear in the recipients box in US format. Why? And how can I avoid this.
Thanks.
Thu 11 Sep 2008, 14:57Trainer Alan said...
RE: export of excel data to word
Hi Shirley
Another delegate asked this question.
I think it has something to do with Excel dates being really numbers which are formatted to look like dates. I assume that in the merge process there is a native conversion to US format for these.
I would suggest that you type the Excel dates in text format eg 11th September 2008. The merge should then recognise these as text and the dates should appear correctly in the merge.
Hope it works - I haven't tested it!
Alan Burbridge
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