[Peter Jamieson]

You would really have to ask Microsoft that question (the regular responders
in here are not MS employees).

The probable reason is that Microsoft sees no good commercial reason to
improve things in this area when demand for other facilities has
(presumably) been much stronger. There is no technical reason why Word could
not handle date entry and date calculations a lot better than it does. Of
course, there are non-trivial problems such as the impossibility of telling
what format a date is in - e.g. is 5/6/2007 6th May (cf. in the US) or 5th
June (cf. in the UK), and the difficulty of dealing with multilingual date
entry, but those problems can be dealt with in one way or another.

Peter Jamieson

"Karin" wrote in message
...
After a lot of searching of this forum, the knowledge base, and the help
files, I can't help but wonder

Why can't Word handle dates?

Why can't I ask a user for different date information and do calculations
on
the input?