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Elizabeth052
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Dec 15, 2020
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Mail merge from excel to a word document for grade reporting

I am importing student grades from an excel spread sheet. The averages are computed using a Sum function.  The cell is formatted with 0 decimal places and shows as a whole number in excel.  When the ...
  • HansVogelaar's avatar
    Dec 15, 2020

    Elizabeth052

    Do the formatting in Word.

    Right-click the average score merge field in the mail merge document.

    Select 'Toggle Field Codes' from the context menu.

    You'll see something like

     

    { MERGEFIELD Average }

     

    or

     

    { MERGEFIELD Average \* MERGEFORMAT }

     

    where Average is the name of the merge field. Make it look like this:

     

    { MERGEFIELD Average \# "0" }

     

    Press F9 to hide the field code and to update the result.

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