This is more complex than you might imagine, but it can be done. See
http://addbalance.com/word/datefields2.htm for information on the different
kinds of ways to make a date calculation work. It includes links to
utilities to create the fields and an explanation of different macros that
can be used instead of fields. It also has a link to
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...?Number=249902 which is a document
with various fields already created. Another resource is
http://www.gmayor.com/insert_a_date_...than_today.htm.

--
Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Tel" wrote in message
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At first what I wanted to do seemed so simple, now I'm not so sure.

I have two tables, Table one (Column 2, row 2) has a user input date in it
that is a week end date (i.e. a Sunday)

The second table has a column which lists the dates of the week leading up
to that sunday.

Therefo

Table one date would equal 16th April 2006 (Changeable)

Table two would list from column 1 row 3 down:
10th April 2006
11th April 2006
12th April 2006
13th April 2006
14th April 2006
15th April 2006
16th April 2006

This document would form a master document. The user would change the
date
in Table 1 and I am hoping the remaining dates would take their
calculations
from that.

I am very much a novice with formulae in Word tables so if any
instructions
could be made as simple as possible that would help my simple mind.

Looking forward to your replies.

Terry