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Date and time
Can I make a custom date format to use with the insert menu.
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Yes.
"jtkinge" wrote in message ... Can I make a custom date format to use with the insert menu. |
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I searched the forum for "custom date" and found this suggestion. If it
doesn't work, you might try the search and see if one of the other suggestions is better suited for your situation. If you are using a DOCPROPERTY field to pull the "date completed" into your document, you can add a picture switch to the field. From Word help: Date-Time Picture (\@) field switch Specifies the display of a date or time. This switch is called a "picture" switch because you use symbols to represent the format of the field result. For example, the switch \@ "dddd, MMMM d, yyyy" in the field { DATE \@ "dddd, MMMM d, yyyy" } displays "Friday, November 24, 2000." Combine the following date and time instructions €” day (d), month (M), and year (y); hours (h) and minutes (m) €” to build a date-time picture. You can also include text, punctuation, and spaces. Date instructions Month (M) The letter "M" must be uppercase to distinguish months from minutes. Picture items M Displays the month as a number without a leading 0 (zero) for single-digit months. For example, July is "7". MM Displays the month as a number with a leading 0 (zero) for single-digit months. For example, July is "07". MMM Displays the month as a three-letter abbreviation. For example, July is "Jul". MMMM Displays the month as its full name. Day (d) Displays the day of the month or the day of the week. The letter "d" can be either uppercase or lowercase. Picture items d Displays the day of the week or month as a number without a leading 0 (zero) for single-digit days. For example, the sixth day of the month is displayed as "6". dd Displays the day of the week or month as a number with a leading 0 (zero) for single-digit days. For example, the sixth day of the month is displayed as "06". ddd Displays the day of the week or month as a three-letter abbreviation. For example, Tuesday is displayed as "Tue". dddd Displays the day of the week as its full name. Year (y) Displays the year as two or four digits. The letter "y" can be either uppercase or lowercase. Picture items yy Displays the year as two digits with a leading 0 (zero) for years 01 through 09. For example, 1995 is displayed as "95", and 2006 is displayed as "06". yyyy Displays the year as four digits. Time instructions Hours (h) A lowercase "h" bases time on the 12-hour clock. An uppercase "H" bases time on the 24-hour, or military, clock; for example, 5 P.M. is displayed as "17". Picture items h or H Displays the hour without a leading 0 (zero) for single-digit hours. For example, the hour of 9 A.M. is displayed as "9". hh or HH Displays the hour with a leading 0 (zero) for single-digit hours. For example, the hour of 9 A.M. is displayed as "09". Minutes (m) The letter "m" must be lowercase to distinguish minutes from months. Picture items m Displays minutes without a leading 0 (zero) for single-digit minutes. For example, { TIME \@ "m" } displays "2". mm Displays minutes with a leading 0 (zero) for single-digit minutes. For example, { TIME \@ "mm" } displays "02". AM/PM and other text and punctuation Displays A.M. and P.M. in one of four formats. To change the A.M. and P.M. symbols for Microsoft Windows, change the regional settings in Windows Control Panel. Picture items for A.M. and P.M. display AM/PM Displays A.M. and P.M. as uppercase. For example, { TIME \@ "h AM/PM" } displays "9 AM" or "5 PM". am/pm Displays A.M. and P.M. as lowercase. For example, { TIME \@ "h am/pm" } displays "9 am" or "5 pm". A/P Displays A.M. and P.M. as abbreviated uppercase. For example, { TIME \@ "h A/P" } displays "9 A" or "5 P". a/p Displays A.M. and P.M. as abbreviated lowercase. For example, { DATE \@ "h a/p" } displays "9 a" or "5 p". Picture items for other text display 'text' Any specified text in a date or time. Enclose the text in single quotation marks. For example, { TIME \@ "HH:mm 'Greenwich mean time' " } displays "12:45 Greenwich mean time". character Includes the specified character in a date or time, such as a : (colon), - (hyphen), * (asterisk), or space. For example, { DATE \@ "HH:mm MMM-d, 'yy" } displays "11:15 Nov-6, '95". `numbereditem` Includes in a date or time the number of the preceding item that you numbered by using the Caption command on the Insert menu (Reference submenu), or by inserting a SEQ field. Enclose the item identifier, such as "table" or "figure," in grave accents (`). Microsoft Word displays the sequential number in arabic numerals. For example, { PRINTDATE \@ "'Table' `table` 'was printed on' M/d/yy" } displays "Table 2 was printed on 9/25/95". Note Quotation marks are not required around simple date-time pictures that do not include spaces or text €” for example, { DATE \@ MM/yy }. For more complex date-time pictures and those that include spaces or text, enclose the entire date-time picture in quotation marks, for example, { DATE \ @ "dddd MMMM d, yyyy', at' h:mm" }. Microsoft Word adds quotation marks to date-time picture switches if you insert a field by using the Date and Time command or the Field command (Insert menu). "jtkinge" wrote: Can I make a custom date format to use with the insert menu. |
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Create a date field. See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for how.
Select it and save it as an AutoText entry. You can put this on the Insert or any other menu using the Customize dialog (under the Tools menu). -- 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. "jtkinge" wrote in message ... Can I make a custom date format to use with the insert menu. |
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