Hello,

I'm a bit of a mail merge newbie, and I tried to answer my own question by reading the sticky material.

I have a table and one of the columns is filled with dates. I've bookmarked the cell's contents and now I'm trying to perform a function on that bookmark outside of the table. I'm trying to find the max date and have the following:

{=MAX(DateTest)\@MM\DD\YY}

and the result is:

0.03125

When I test on a numeric column all works great. I know there must be a string issue but I can't figure out where I'm going wrong.

I think my issue is actually with trying to calculate the MAX over the date range. I added MIN to the same merge document and the result is also 0.03125. I read the guides in the sticky which led me to creating a book mark for the date value in my mail merge table. Aside from that, I'm not sure what else to do, but I can be certain my calculation needs to be reevaluated.