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date problem in form
Hi, I would appreciate if someone could help me with the following form
problem: I've created a form with Microsoft word. Besides, I've formatted 1 of the field as "Date". However, I faced an issue as follows: The date format that I've set is DD.MM.YYYY When the user key in an invalid date, for example: 22.22.2006 The document will automatically reflect it back to current date. Is it possible for the document to prompt out a msg "Invalid date" in stead of change it to my current date in this case? Please advice. Thanks in advance. |
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Hi ?B?YWg=?=,
I've created a form with Microsoft word. Besides, I've formatted 1 of the field as "Date". However, I faced an issue as follows: The date format that I've set is DD.MM.YYYY When the user key in an invalid date, for example: 22.22.2006 The document will automatically reflect it back to current date. Is it possible for the document to prompt out a msg "Invalid date" in stead of change it to my current date in this case? You can provide this only by using a macro in the form document. If you require further help, you need to tell us which version of Word you're using, with which language the form has been created, and what the Windows language is. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Thanks for your reply. Just wish to find out from you whether there is any
alternative solution to this? For your information, I don't have any macro in place now. I still managed to get message "A valid date or time is required" when I enter an invalid date. However, when I enter an invalid month, for example: 12.13.2006 The system will change the month to date. As a result , the system will change it to 13.12.2006 automatically. And the other scenario is that if both the date and month are invalid, the system will change it to today's date automatically. Please advice whether there is any other alternative to resolve this besides macro. For your information, I'm using Windows XP, Microsoft Office word 2003 now. Thanks "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?YWg=?=, I've created a form with Microsoft word. Besides, I've formatted 1 of the field as "Date". However, I faced an issue as follows: The date format that I've set is DD.MM.YYYY When the user key in an invalid date, for example: 22.22.2006 The document will automatically reflect it back to current date. Is it possible for the document to prompt out a msg "Invalid date" in stead of change it to my current date in this case? You can provide this only by using a macro in the form document. If you require further help, you need to tell us which version of Word you're using, with which language the form has been created, and what the Windows language is. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi ?B?YWg=?=,
Just wish to find out from you whether there is any alternative solution to this? For your information, I don't have any macro in place now. I still managed to get message "A valid date or time is required" when I enter an invalid date. However, when I enter an invalid month, for example: 12.13.2006 The system will change the month to date. As a result , the system will change it to 13.12.2006 automatically. And the other scenario is that if both the date and month are invalid, the system will change it to today's date automatically. Please advice whether there is any other alternative to resolve this besides macro. For your information, I'm using Windows XP, Microsoft Office word 2003 now. Since you didn't answer my questions concerning languages, I can't even begin to guess whether there might be a way to work around this. But I'm thinking it probably would require a macro. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Both the OS and the words document are using English
"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?YWg=?=, I've created a form with Microsoft word. Besides, I've formatted 1 of the field as "Date". However, I faced an issue as follows: The date format that I've set is DD.MM.YYYY When the user key in an invalid date, for example: 22.22.2006 The document will automatically reflect it back to current date. Is it possible for the document to prompt out a msg "Invalid date" in stead of change it to my current date in this case? You can provide this only by using a macro in the form document. If you require further help, you need to tell us which version of Word you're using, with which language the form has been created, and what the Windows language is. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi ?B?YWg=?=,
Both the OS and the words document are using English Well, US date format and UK date format both uses slashes, not dots. So where is your DATE format coming from? Word relies on the system date format settings. You're going to have problems if your document language and your date "language" are in conflict. I've created a form with Microsoft word. Besides, I've formatted 1 of the field as "Date". However, I faced an issue as follows: The date format that I've set is DD.MM.YYYY When the user key in an invalid date, for example: 22.22.2006 The document will automatically reflect it back to current date. Is it possible for the document to prompt out a msg "Invalid date" in stead of change it to my current date in this case? You can provide this only by using a macro in the form document. If you require further help, you need to tell us which version of Word you're using, with which language the form has been created, and what the Windows language is. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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