How to format a percentage in a merge field (in MS Word)? at 5:35 AM

May be you're like me - wants to make life easier by taking shortcuts. And when it comes to making letters, certificates, e-mails, contracts with various recipients and counter-parties with different data but with the same fields, nothing beats Mail Merge function of Microsoft Word, at least for me.

Formatting numbers can easily be done. However, formatting percentages is somehow not that easy.

For example, you have 17.12% in your Excel (used as data source) and you want it to appear in your Word document just the same.

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