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Set date formats (i.e. 4th or 3rd)?
The goal is to have the following end result with this merge field
FILLIN "First Interview date" \@ "dddd, MMMM d" \o Result: Monday, March 6th |
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Set date formats (i.e. 4th or 3rd)?
I am not sure about doing it with a fill in field, but with a mergefield you
would use { MERGEFIELD FirstInterviewDate \@ "dddd MMMM" } { MERGEFIELD FirstInterviewDate \@ "d" \* Ordinal } If you really want the date to be entered from the keyboard, you may have to use two FILLIN fields and that would annoy the hell out of me. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "luk_sr" wrote in message ... The goal is to have the following end result with this merge field FILLIN "First Interview date" \@ "dddd, MMMM d" \o Result: Monday, March 6th |
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Set date formats (i.e. 4th or 3rd)?
See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the
different kinds of datefields and how to format them. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "luk_sr" wrote in message ... The goal is to have the following end result with this merge field FILLIN "First Interview date" \@ "dddd, MMMM d" \o Result: Monday, March 6th |
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Set date formats (i.e. 4th or 3rd)?
As Doug says, you cannot do this with a single field. If you can use an ASK
field instead of a fillin field you could format a REF field to produce the output required - see http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm and substitute REF bookmarkname for DATE in the example. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org luk_sr wrote: The goal is to have the following end result with this merge field FILLIN "First Interview date" \@ "dddd, MMMM d" \o Result: Monday, March 6th |
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Set date formats (i.e. 4th or 3rd)?
You can't do this with a single field, but it can be done with nested
fields, coded like: {QUOTE{ASK MyDate "First Interview date" \o}{MyDate \@ "dddd, MMMM {MyDate \@ d \*Ordinal}"}} To see how to superscript the ordinals, plus how to do just about everything else you might want to do with dates in Word, check out my Date Calc 'tutorial', at: http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...?Number=249902 Cheers "luk_sr" wrote in message ... The goal is to have the following end result with this merge field FILLIN "First Interview date" \@ "dddd, MMMM d" \o Result: Monday, March 6th |
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