[Graham Mayor]

Plan B - that should be

{ Date \@ "ddd dd MMM hh:mm am/pm" }

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Graham Mayor wrote:
Office doesn't struggle with dates in the UK? They merely have a
different format to US dates. As a former UK resident I always have
my PC configured for the UK and Macropod is in Australia where they
use the same format..
{ Date \@ "ddd dd MMM mm:ss am/pm" }

is the correct switch to get the date and time in the format you
chose from the current date. As for your data, we don't appear to
know what the field contains. It won't make up a time if none exists
in the field.
What does
{Mergefield "CSCS_Test_DateTime" }
produce?
Connected by DDE that field should show what you have in Excel?


JethroUK© wrote:
I tried CTRL+F9 and it now treats it like a field - Thanks

I tried macropods post 'as is' but unsuccessfully - upon reflection i
thought changing the date format (long for pending to short for
history) would be more effective (and might even work ) - It still
doesn't work (just leaves empty field) and for a lot of reasons i
don't think it ever will:

News gets broken into pieces - i might be missing some subtle spacing
I'm in UK and MS Office struggles with the dates here
They are appointments so have to include time which must blow it's
mind e.g.
Thu 18 Oct 06:00 PM

It's a shame that when connected as DDE there's no option to adopt
the format since it is sitting in Excel exactly as intended

I might shift the Day of the Week to a seperate field incase this is
puzzling it
I might just get XL to add "Pending" to the end
I might try shifting all the data into MS Word table - One day )

Until then I think i'll just print it out and highlight all pending
appointments with a pen )


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Do you mean apart from using CTRL+F9 for the field boundaries {}?

In any case it is not going to work. You cannot compare dates like
that - and I seem to recall Macropod showing you how in another
thread; however life's too short to go looking for that thread on a
Sunday morning, so what you should have is presumably:

{IF{Mergefield "CSCS_Test_DateTime" \@ "yyyyMMdd"} {Date \@
"yyyyMMdd"} "{MERGEFIELD
"CSCS_Test_DateTime" \@ "ddd dd MM hh:mm"}" "{MERGEFIELD
"CSCS_Test_DateTime" \@ "dd MM"}"}

See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



JethroUK© wrote:
I have been experimenting with a mail merge field all night long
and have finally come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter
what i put e.g.
{IF{MERGEFIELD "CSCS_Test_DateTime"} {DATE} {MERGEFIELD
"CSCS_Test_DateTime" \@ "ddd dd MM hh:mm"}
{MERGEFIELD "CSCS_Test_DateTime" dd MM}

The machine just doesn't not like the way i am entering them

They just sit there like a string of mis-spelled text - I know that
when entering array formulas in XL you have to use CTRL + ENTER

Is there some secret handshake that i'm missing?