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Insert a future date
Thanks Graham.
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Peter From private correspondence it may have been an issue involving smart quotes in the date switches, as I have sent the Chris a working copy of the field and that works for him.  -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Peter Jamieson wrote: I note that you are using a field called MYDATE I was just using "mydate" as a sample name for a date field, to be substituted by whatever date field name you might have. (cf. Graham's use of "DATEFIELD"). But you don't have one anyway. Using TIME instead of the MERGEFIELD DATEFIELD works fine here and allows the merge, at least on Word 2003 - I haven't been able to check with Word 2000. Peter Jamieson "Chris Stammers" wrote in message ... Dear Peter, I note that you are using a field called MYDATE. The date field that is being used is { TIME \@ "dd MMMM yyyy" }. Could that be making it all fall over do you think? The letter date isn't being driven from AS400. Does the 'mydate' function still populate today's date? Regards, Chris "Peter Jamieson" wrote: I get the impression that the problem could be that the date fields coming across from the AS400 are not treated as dates by Word. If Word sees the field "mydate" as a date, then Word's date switches should function, e.g. if mydate is 13 June 2006, then { MERGEFIELD mydate \@YYYY } should display as 2006, { MERGEFIELD mydate \@M } should display as 6, and so on. This is crucial to the functioning of the fields Graham describes. If Word is not treating your AS400 dates as dates, either another approach is needed or you need to try to get it to do so. I don't know AS400 and don't have one to experiment with here, but a. are the dates in something that is obviously a date field on AS400? b. how are you connecting to the AS400? Do you use an ODBC driver or an OLEDB provider? Do you know if the AS400 driver/provider implements a standard dialect of SQL? Peter Jamieson "Chris Stammers" wrote in message ... Hello, I am also trying to do this (I need to add 14 days to todays date). I picked up a long string of code from one of the guys here which works well on its own however, when used in a mail merge document, the code interferes with the merge fields and stops them working, so no letters are produced at all. We are using Word 2000 v9.0. Does anyone have any experience of this? I should perhaps say that the source data is coming from an AS400 system rather than a created Excel or Access file. Thanks. Regards, Chris "Charles Kenyon" wrote: This is more complex than you might imagine, but it can be done. See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields2.htm for information on the different kinds of ways to make a date calculation work. It includes links to pages with fields and an explanation of different macros that can be used instead of fields. -- 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. "Mark Ashley" wrote in message news 
This may be a dumb question, but I can't figure out how to getWord (2003) to insert a future date. For example, insert the date that is 30 days from the current date. Thanks for any help. I can't believe the time I've spent trying to figure this out. |
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