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Dates can come to us in all shapes and sizes. In  the Data Source file for this course, the dates   follow a standard month, day, year, and time  format. But you might also get some variations   in your own data with formats like Jan 4, 2022,  Tuesday. Things that don't look so clean. You can   actually accommodate a lot of these and reformat  your dates for your Mail Merge Template using   a switch with your merge field. A switch might  not solve all of your date formatting problems,   but, when it does, it will mean that you don't  have to spend time cleaning your Data Source file,   or trying to get your survey or form application  to generate dates in a different format.   In the Quick Reference Guide for this course,  I've included some rules and samples for you   as a starting point. If you're used to working  with Excel, this might look very familiar to you.   For this Basics Project, you're going to add a  switch for the Timestamp merge field in accordance   with your notes, which tell you that you want  a three letter month name followed by the day   and four digit year, and you want to  get rid of all of the time information.   From the Quick Reference Guide, you can see  that the format for that is MMM space d comma   space yyyy. Note that all of those Ms are  capital Ms. The ds and ys are lowercase.   To add that into the Timestamp merge  field, toggle into field code view.   Then put your cursor inside the curly braces  right after the word Timestamp. Enter a space,   and then type in the switch backslash,  at symbol, space, double quotation mark,   M, M, M, space, d, comma, space, y, y, y, y,  double quotation mark. And make sure there's   still a space between that last double  quotation mark and the right curly brace.   Do you want to see what that looks like?  I do! Toggle back to the normal view,   and, in the Mailings tab of the Ribbon,  select the button for Preview Results.   You can use the arrow keys to flip through a  few records and make sure that everything is   coming through the way you want it to. Exit out  of preview mode by unselecting the Preview Results   button on the Ribbon, and then toggle back to the  field code view so we can keep making changes.   Before moving on to the next lesson, go ahead  and play with a few different date formats.   Keep in mind these rules: All date switches  have to start with backslash at symbol,   and the date format you want to use has  to be inside double quotation marks.   And make sure that you have a space  before the backslash of the switch   and a space on either side of the quotation  marks of your date format. Enter and exit   preview mode just like we did in this video  to see the results of your experimentation.   Remember that you...