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Date + x number of days?????
Is it possible to create a field in word so that you can have the current
days date plus x number of days which updates automatically on the opening of a document. I need this feature to put into a letter, currently the letter is in excel but because of the lack of formating capabilities of excel (i.e. no justify) it looks messy. I have tried to by inserting through an excel spreadsheet object which works ok but you have to double click on the field to update it. As this letter will be used by various people I want it to be as easy as possible as the date is an important deadline and if they forget to update it.........! Hope someone can help |
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See http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...?Number=249902
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org hec79red wrote: Is it possible to create a field in word so that you can have the current days date plus x number of days which updates automatically on the opening of a document. I need this feature to put into a letter, currently the letter is in excel but because of the lack of formating capabilities of excel (i.e. no justify) it looks messy. I have tried to by inserting through an excel spreadsheet object which works ok but you have to double click on the field to update it. As this letter will be used by various people I want it to be as easy as possible as the date is an important deadline and if they forget to update it.........! Hope someone can help |
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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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "hec79red" wrote in message ... Is it possible to create a field in word so that you can have the current days date plus x number of days which updates automatically on the opening of a document. I need this feature to put into a letter, currently the letter is in excel but because of the lack of formating capabilities of excel (i.e. no justify) it looks messy. I have tried to by inserting through an excel spreadsheet object which works ok but you have to double click on the field to update it. As this letter will be used by various people I want it to be as easy as possible as the date is an important deadline and if they forget to update it.........! Hope someone can help |
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