[Andy]

I want a date field of a Word 2003 form to default to today's date. I put in
{DATE} in the default date property but I get "A valid date or time is
required". Is there a way to do this? Thanks.

Andy

[Graham Mayor]

Either put a DATE field or a CREATEDATE field in the template where you want
the date to appear, or if you want today's date in a Date formfield, set the
formfield type to 'Current Date'. If you want to start with Today's date,
and allow the user to change that date to some other date, you will need
instead an on-entry macro to fill the date eg assuming the text field is
bookmarked "Date1", the following will insert the current
date in that field when you tab into it, in the format of the switch - here
"dd\MM\yyyy"


Sub SetDate()
Dim sDate As Date
sDate = Format((Now), "dd/MM/yyyy")
ActiveDocument.FormFields("Date1").Result = sDate
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



Andy wrote:
I want a date field of a Word 2003 form to default to today's date.
I put in {DATE} in the default date property but I get "A valid date
or time is required". Is there a way to do this? Thanks.

Andy