That works beautifully! Thank you so much for all your help, and for your
very clear directions.
Is there anywhere I can read about such other wonderful secret codes
obtained by manually typing commands such as QUOTE between Ctrl-F9 brackets?
I am wondering if all of the power and control of WordPerfect merge codes is
hiding in there somewhere!!! :-)
Thank you again, Peter!
Karen
"Peter Jamieson" wrote in message
...
In this case the date format switch needs to be applied to the DATE field,
not the QUOTE field, so try
{ QUOTE "{ DATE \@"MMMM DD, YYYY" }" }
If that does not work, can you let us know what you are seeing?
Peter Jamieson
"Karen Hart" wrote in message
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Thank you so much, Peter! It works great, in the header, too! And your
directions are so clear :-)
The only thing I can't finess is how to make it print like March 25, 2005
instead of 3/25/05. I experimented with some variations of what Graham
wrote above, but I was unable to make it work. Can I impose on you one
more time for this final step?
"Peter Jamieson" wrote in message
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It's an example of a "nested field". You can't usually enter them easily
using e.g. Insert|Field, so...
Use ctrl F9 to insert a pair of the special field braces {}
Type QUOTE "" in between to give you { QUOTE "" }
Put the insertion point between the "" and press ctrl-F9 to give you
{ QUOTE "{}" }
Type DATE between the inner {} to give you
{ QUOTE "{ DATE }" }
Peter Jamieson
"Karen Hart" wrote in message
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Hello Peter,
I'm sorry I don't understand your reference below { QUOTE "{ DATE }" }
Is this a merge field I put in the merge form? If so, how do I insert
it?
Thank you,
Karen
"Peter Jamieson" wrote in message
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How about
{ QUOTE "{ DATE }" }
?
Peter Jamieson
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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This is not going to work 
That's what comes from not testing the
suggestions before posting.
Change the field back to a DATE field, update it, then merge to a
new
document
CTRL+A then CTRL+SHIFT+F9
will fix it.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Karen Hart wrote:
Thank you so much for replying, Graham. Coincidentally, I was on
your
web site checking it out exactly when your reply came :-) What a
cool web site! I love it! And I love that cute little thing that
follows my pointer around!
Anyway, once again, I tried...I insert this into the merge MAIN
document: {CREATEDATE \@ "MMMMd, yyyy" \* MERGEFORMAT}.
But sure enough, when I merge it, this is what I see:
August 24, 2000
(This is the date I originally created this merge source document).
(Ctrl-A), (F9) is changing nothing, no matter if I do it before
and/or after merging.
Please help me out of the twilight zone!!
Thanks again,
Karen
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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The date in the createdate in the merge source document is
irrelevant. If you merge to a new document the date that document
is
created becomes the createdate for that document. If the field
shows
the wrong date select all (CTRL+A) then update (F9). That should
fix
it.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Karen Hart wrote:
Graham,
I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting
merged
document is displaying the date the original merge form was
created...not the date the original merge form is being merged.
Does
that make sense? In other words, I changed the form document on
Jan.
14 and coded the date to be CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form
is
merged, the resulting date displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing
wrong?
Thank you.
Karen
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document.
The new document will always show the date of the merge.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the
current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In
other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's
date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach
the user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there
are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, including
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.
Thank you in advance.
Karen