"Jan Karel Pieterse" wrote:

Can you change the data type in the mail merge to text? (sorry, no Word
expert here<g)

Hi again, after playing around it seems you can change the formatting type
in word kind of (using "\#" in the mergefield to make it into a number) but
then it seems to want me to specify the maximum number of digits. This is a
problem since they are either 7 or 8 digits, and the 7 digit ones will end up
with a blank space preceding it to make it up to the 8 digits.

Im also assuming that the 8 digit ones would be cutoff if I specified 7
digits maximum. I cant test it out because now word has lost its link to the
excel data file that i converted to text and wont reconnect.

Aaaaah Microsoft, please sort out your Mail Merge problems, it has silly
amount of bugs in it. ;) I will personally buy Office 2007 or whatever for
work if you will just write a program that works properly!