I am merging my salesforce data into a Word document, but the date is coming out in a MM/DD/YY format, whereas I want it to spell out the date (eg. February 10, 2010).  I have already tried the {\@ "MMMM d, yyyy"} formatting that Word suggests, but the format still isn't changed when I merge my data into the document. 

Here is what my date field looks like:

{ MERGEFIELD OPPORTUNITY_CLOSE_DATE \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" }

but again, the dates come out looking like MM/dd/yy.  Does anyone know another way I can try to change the date formatting?