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Mail Merge date showing as number in Word

I have an excel spreadsheet that I use to create my mail merge in word. My mail merge has been working fine until today. I have 3 merge fields that show dates and one of them is now only showing numbers, the other two are still formatted correctly. Nothing has changed in my spreadsheet but went ahead I cleared the date formatting and reformatted those columns to see if that was the problem but it is still not working.

Does anyone have any clue as to why this is happening?

That suggests the errant column has a mix of numbers/text and dates. You should only have one data type in a column.
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There are only dates in this column.

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I suspect on close inspection you'll find some of those dates have been input as text, not as dates. Multiple empty cells at the top of the column may also cause the mailmerge to treat it as a text column.
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