Formatting a percentage mail merge field

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Guest

Word XP is converting my percentages from Excel from 41% to 0.4135483679 I am
trying to find the correct syntax to format the field. This is what have
been trying
{ ={mergefield amount } *100\#"0%"} I keep getting a syntax error.
 
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Guest

I am still getting "!Syntax, {" error. Actually I found that site before I
posted here. That is where I got my original attempt at formatting the
field. Any thoughts as to why its not working?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Try putting a space before the backslash.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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G

Guest

Thanks but got the same error "!Syntax Error,"

Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
Try putting a space before the backslash.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
 

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