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Date format in mail merge

I have an form in Access which runs a make-table query and then mail merges the contents to Word. One of the merged fields is a date - in Access the date appears in 'UK' format correctly but when merged to Word (with language set to UK) the date appears in 'American' format. Any ideas on how I can change this as my client is inisistent that the date appears in UK format?

Thanks
Jan 16 '08 #1
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Denburt
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Have you tried using the Format() function in the query that is to be exported? I know this will work on occasion. Remember MS Access may want the Hours min secs. or it may try to add them and that could be what is throwing things off.
Jan 17 '08 #2

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