A date in Access is just a number, and the display format defines how it's displayed. So in 'reality' the number in the field should be 38513 (that's June 10, 2005 as you can check in Excel by changing the format of the cell). While October 6, 2005 is 38631.
I would start with checking what's really in the field by exporting the table to Excel (read through http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6129-0.html?forumID=29&threadID=117591&messageID=1335183 if necessary) and check the contents to see if Word is right or Access.
I think this is some interplay with the date format defined in Control Panel>International and the field settings or option settings in Access and Word. If you say 10/6 is 6 june correctly, I assume you live a part of the world where that's correct (not the USA) like here (Holland) and that the Windows International settings is set accordingly. I don't have Office 2002 here (only XP) and don't have the time at the moment to try it here. Maybe later on.
Can you tell your OS, your country and your date display settings in Windows International? That might help. And please post the results of your little experiment by exporting the table to Excel.
Kees
I am having a problem with Microsoft Access 2002 mail merging to Word 2002. I am storing a date field in my database in the format "dd MMMM yyyy". When I type in a my date 10/06/05 it displays correctly as 10 June 2005, the problem is when I use that field in my Word mail merge as { MERGEFIELD "strTest_Date" \@ "dd MMMM yyyy" } the date swaps around and displays in the Word doc as 6 October 2005. Any ideas why? I am totally stumped!
Many thanks!

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