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.

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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"designgeek" wrote in message
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I already have word automatically generating the 'last saved date' of the
document, which I call the 'effective date'. This is always in the same
location and never moves.

From this I would like for word to calculate, automatically, two future
dates. This would remove the need for people to manually enter those dates
and as such make mistakes.

I would like to be able to take this effective date and generate two
future
dates: Review date = (effective date + 22 months) and also Expires date =
(effective date + 24 months)

an example of this is:

Effective Date: 5 April 2006
Review Date: 5 February 2008
Expiry Date: 5 April 2008

Is there anyway to 'reference' another date and create to future dates
from
this? I've done this within excel and now need the same functionality but
for
word..

Help!