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can't add dash to zip plus 4 for a mail merge

Aug 2, 2005 1:23AM PDT

So frustrating.

My excel file for a mail merge lists each zipcode as 9 digits and doesn't include a dash. I would like to add the dash for a mail merge in word.

I can't figure out how to do it in word and I don't remember having this problem before.

anyone help me out?

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I asked google about this and..
Aug 2, 2005 2:16AM PDT
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Thank you
Aug 3, 2005 1:08AM PDT

Well, I went in and manually deleted all 600 zip+4s from my list.

Thank you for that link. I didn't catch that one when I was doing a google search. It is much more informative on the field codes than any of the other ones I looked at. I tried using the field codes much of the day yesterday before I gave up.

The link you posted deserves a bookmark for me.