Thread: [Solved] mail merge treating CITY as DATE
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Old 01-29-2013, 08:24 PM
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Hi woody,

Your description suggests the field has mixed data types, not just city names, and Word has interpreted the field as containing dates/times. In such a scenario, text strings evaluate to 0 and may therefore appear as 12:00:00 AM.
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