You press Alt+F9 to display the field code of your merge field (such as
«BdayA1», which will show { MERGEFIELD BdayA1 }) and add the switch to that
field.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Wiersma7" wrote in message
...
The table has merge fields from an Excel spreadsheet. I understand the
premise of what the [below address: http:
//www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm] is about - but I'm not sure
how to incorporate that into my table. Do I add the switch as a field to
the spreadsheet? To the table? That doesn't seem to work. I guess I'm
asking if you can simplify it for me. I would like to change the format of
01/01/09 to January 1. (btw - I do know how to do it in Excel )

Also, is there way to have a conditional rule (?) to only print the text:
'Birthday:' if there is a date in the date field?
Below is the simple table (obviously I'm making a directory - for my
church):

«Adult1»
Birthday:
«BdayA1»

Cell:
«CellA1»

Email:
«EmailA1»

Anniversary:
«Anniversary»





Thanks very much for your help so far,
wiersma7


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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If the table was created via a mail merge, you can add a numeric picture
switch to the merge field to constrain the display (see
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm). Alternatively, you can
link to Excel using DDE instead of OLE DB, which will preserve the native
Excel formatting.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Wiersma7" wrote in message
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I have a table that has birthday dates. The info in the table was
imported from Excel with the dates formatted as 'mmmm dd'. However, they
imported as I entered them: mm/dd/yy. I don't want the years to show. How
can I format these dates in my table to reflect only the Birth Date?
(rather than going through each record)
Thanks,
wiersma7