{"id":1025,"date":"2010-04-14T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T09:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galhano.com\/blog\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2010-04-14T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T09:36:33","slug":"date-format-in-mail-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Date format in mail merge"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you Alt and F9<\/strong> you will see the MergeFormat Field<\/strong> on your Word document.<\/p>\n

If you type \\@”dd\/MM\/yyyy” at the end of the field the date is displayed in that format.<\/p>\n

To get the date format you want, you can add a formatting picture switch. In Word:
\n. select the mergefield;
\n. press Shift-F9<\/strong> to expose the field coding. It should look something like {MERGEFIELD MyDate} where ‘MyDate’ is your mergefield’s name;
\n. delete anything appearing after the mergefield’s name and add ‘\\@ “d MMMM yyyy”‘ to the field, as in {MERGEFIELD MyDate \\@ “d MMMM yyyy”}. With this switch your date will come out as ‘2 August 2008’. Other possible date formatting switches include:
\n. \\@ “dddd, d MMMM yyyy”;
\n. \\@ “ddd, d MMMM yyyy”;
\n. \\@ “d MMM yyyy”;
\n. \\@ “dd\/MMM\/yyyy”;
\n. \\@ “d-MM-yy”;
\nNote: you can swap the d, M, y expressions around, but you must use uppercase ‘M’s for months.
\n. position the cursor anywhere in this field and press F9 to update it;
\n. run your mailmerge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you Alt and F9 you will see the MergeFormat Field on your Word document. If you type \\@”dd\/MM\/yyyy” at the end of the field the date is displayed in that format. To get the date format you want, you can add a formatting picture switch. In Word: . select the mergefield; . press Shift-F9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"close","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truques-dicas","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}