Thread: [Solved] Can you have date and currency fields detect regional settings for format?
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Old 04-04-2019, 03:38 PM
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You could use custom document properties named, for example, Currency, ShortDate, LongDate, etc. and insert into them the field picture switches you want to use in a given locale. The mergefields, etc. could then be coded along the lines of:
{MERGEFIELD Amount \#"{DOCPROPERTY Currency}"}
In this example, if the 'Currency' custom document property contained €,0.00, the output would be formatted as €1,234,56.

Another approach would be to employ a macro that queries the regional settings upon opening the mailmerge main document and automatically updates those properties for you.

Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages.
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