mail merge

lishman

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iam trying to mail merge an excel file of peoples salaries. When the numbers are presented in word values are trimmed, eg £1000.50 is shown in mail merge as £1000.5
How do I format the number cells in excel so that the number shown is in the correct format.
 

Excel Facts

What do {} around a formula in the formula bar mean?
{Formula} means the formula was entered using Ctrl+Shift+Enter signifying an old-style array formula.
In the Word document, add to the field code a switch for formatting, i.e. if the code is:

{ MERGEFIELD Value }

add \# "£0.00" so that it looks like

{ MERGEFIELD Value \# "£0.00" }

that will format the raw Excel data in Word.
 
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Many thanks. a lot simpler solution to the one a devised by testing character lens then converting value to text based on expected character len( it works but very cumbersome!!)
 
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