Format Merged fields

[Simon-UK]

Can anyone help? I'm inserting a merged number field into a letter and its taking the formatting of "format as decimal". How can I change this option as i can't bring up the menu as I would on a field i.e. right click/number format.

Additionally, how do I format the today's date i.e. // ? It’s coming up as numbers and I want it in words. Is this possible

Many thanks

Simon

[RalphL]

You can format numbers and dates in merge fields. Select the field (do not highlight it) and then format. You can have one number format and one date format in a merged field.

You can do tthe same with the //.

[Simon-UK]

Thank you. I finally got it to give me the option when i had the text box highlighted with the pick tool rather than the text tool.

Thanks for your help!

Simon