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is there there a field for age in the letter merge?

Use birthdate. Word can easily covert that to an age.

im a computer idiot and i dont see anywhere in word that will do this

Well, I thought it did. I can't seem to find it now either.

I would try this for age in word, supposing you bring in birth date as BirthDate, I have not tried it, if it does not work, postback (or email you, I emailed this to you also).

I guarantee nothing, but I would say 85% chance it will work, if not I have a typo

{ = INT({ DATE \@ "yyyy" } + { DATE \@ "M" } / 12 +
{ DATE \@ "d" } / 365.25 - { MERGEFIELD BirthDate \@"yyyy" \*Mergeformat }
- { MERGEFIELD BirthDate \@"M" \*Mergeformat } / 12 - { MERGEFIELD BirthDate \@"d" \*Mergeformat } / 365.25) }

cheers
nathan

any plans to add an age to the patient field?

I don't think I've seen it yet in the feature request system.

Done in version 6.8.