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Formatting for merge fields

Postby Jason » Wed, 06 Aug 2003 06:43:35 GMT 

Is there anyway to format specific merge fields so that 
they can have dashes, decimal points or dollar signs in 
appropriate places?  I have a user that merges a bunch of 
informtion into several merge fields and I want only 
certain fields to have dashes, certain fields to have 
dollar signs and decimal points and so on.  

TIA,
Jason
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Re: Formatting for merge fields

Postby Doug Robbins - Word MVP » Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:45:11 GMT 

Hi Jason,

See the following page of fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website
 http://www.**--****.com/ 

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested.  Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Re: Formatting for merge fields

Postby Jason » Thu, 07 Aug 2003 05:00:39 GMT 

Doug,

Thanks.  This solves most of my dilemna, but I am still 
having problems with text inserted from the userform into 
bookmarked locations.  I am having problems getting a 
phone number entered like this: 2225551212, and getting it 
to appear in the document as 222-555-1212.

The following displays the code I have for it thus far.  
Right now it's generating extra numbers.

.Bookmarks("contactfax").Range.InsertBefore TextBox11
.Bookmarks("contactfax").Range = Format(TextBox11, "###-
###-####")

I think I just have the format incorrect.  Any help here?

TIA,
Jason

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