[Peter Jamieson]

Jolly good!

Peter Jamieson

"Karin" wrote in message
...
It's working! Bless you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!


And it continues to work when I change the date format to be appropriate
for
a letter (MMMM DD, YYYY).

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

OK, next step:

If you use Alt-F9 to view the IF field field codes

{If {REF LetterDate \@ "yyyyMMdd" } {REF YEDate \@ "yyyyMMdd"}
"Greater"
"Less"}

then select the first REF field, within the IF, right-click and use
"Toggle
field codes", do you still see 20080118?
Then select the second REF field within the IF, right-click and use
"Toggle
field codes". Do you still see 20061231?

Peter Jamieson

"Karin" wrote in message
news
{REF LetterDate \@ "yyyyMMdd"} formats the entered date of January 18,
2008,
as 20080118 and the YEDate of December 31, 2006 shows as 20061231, but
the
results of the IF statement never changes from "Less" (which is the
false
answer).

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

What results do

{ REF LetterDate \@ "yyyyMMdd" }
and
{ REF YEDate \@ "yyyyMMdd" }

return on their own?

it seems as though it should be so simple.

FWIW, I think most people would agree...

Peter Jamieson
"Karin" wrote in message
...
Unfortunately, it doesn't work. The If statement only returns the
last
part
of the statement (i.e., "less").

ASK Letter Date: {ASK LetterDate "Letter date" \*MERGEFORMAT }

ASK FYE Date: {ASK YEDate "FYE Date" \*MERGEFORMAT }

LetterDate: {REF LetterDate} (January 18, 2007)

YEDate: {REF YEDate} (December 31, 2006)

IF Stmnt: {If {REF LetterDate \@ "yyyyMMdd" } {REF YEDate \@
"yyyyMMdd"}
"Greater" "Less"}

Should return "Greater", but always, regardless of dates, returns
"Less".

So, I'm just going to put another ASK field in and have the user put
in
the
correct verbiage.

I do appreciate the help, it seems as though it should be so simple.


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

It does have a date field that can be calculated - Peter already
showed
you
how to do that, which is why I did not reply earlier. You have to
set
the
date format in the calculation but for that to work reliably the
date
entered in the form field has to be a legitimate date. You can help
that
by
setting the field type to Date. Then

{ IF{Date1 \@ "yyyyMMdd" } {Date2 \@ "yyyyMMdd" } "Greater"
"Less" }


There's more on this at
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Karin wrote:
Peter,

I didn't start out asking the same question. The original
question
is why can't word handle dates? I replied to Graham's question
of
what I wanted to do.

I still want to know why Word doesn't have a date field that can
be
filled in by a user and calculated. I'm clearly not the only one
on
this forum wanting to manipulate date information.

Don't assign words or thoughts to me that aren't there. I don't
imagine you're more important than me!

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

This was my reply to your message in another group - a good
example
IMO of why it's not a good idea to post the same question
separately
to different groups (in short: why do you imagine that your time
is
more valuable than ours?):

The comparisons are text comparisons rather than date
comparisons.
To do a date comparison you need the dates in YYYYMMDD format,
so
e.g.

{ IF { REF LetterDate \@YYYYMMDD } = { REF YearEndDate
\@YYYYMMDD }
"ending" "ended" }

is more likely to do the trick. But of course it will only work
if
Word recognises the texts as dates and converts them correctly.


Peter Jamieson



"Karin" wrote in message
...
Graham,

I have two ask fields (LetterDate and YearEndDate). I want to
change text based on the dates:

If LetterDate is = YearEndDate "ending" "ended"

I can have the information entered in the ask fields in any
format,
but it needs to be displayed as mmmm dd, yyyy (January 16,
2007)
in
the letter.

I'm not much of a programmer, but it doesn't seem like this
should
be so difficult.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The short answer is that you can do this - if
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...?Number=249902 doesn't
give you any
ideas, tell us what you are trying to do.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Karin wrote:
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?