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AFAIK=As far as I know.
I don't know the full history of the ADDIN field, but I believe it was intended to allow third party programs such as Personal information managers (PIMs) to maintain their private data in a way that Word would not normally touch. I have read that they are used by the program "Endnote" too. They are similar to PRIVATE fields which are, or were, used by Word when it opens a WordPerfect format doc, in essence to save information that it will need when it saves back to WP format. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...ldsContent.htm for info on ADDIN fields. I'm not sure this info. is the last word on the subject. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/200318 for further info. on PRIVATE fields. Peter Jamieson "Karen Hart" wrote in message k.net... Thank you again! What is ADDIN, and what is AFAIK? Since I am not an end user (I am an MSAccess developer, extracting records from Access and interfacing/merging with Word merge forms), maybe I will be interested :-) "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Almost all of the available field codes are documented in Word Help, usually near the bottom of the table of contents.The "=" field is usually hardest to find if you search Word Help. Some field types such as ADDIN are not documented (AFAIK) but are not usually useful for end users, and others such as DATA are old field types that are typically updated automatically by Word if you use them. I never used WordPerfect very much but my understanding is that the way data sources and the "merge code language" works in WP is more powerful than the Word equivalents. Peter Jamieson "Karen Hart" wrote in message news That works beautifully! Thank you so much for all your help, and for your very clear directions. Is there anywhere I can read about such other wonderful secret codes obtained by manually typing commands such as QUOTE between Ctrl-F9 brackets? I am wondering if all of the power and control of WordPerfect merge codes is hiding in there somewhere!!! :-) Thank you again, Peter! Karen "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... In this case the date format switch needs to be applied to the DATE field, not the QUOTE field, so try { QUOTE "{ DATE \@"MMMM DD, YYYY" }" } If that does not work, can you let us know what you are seeing? Peter Jamieson "Karen Hart" wrote in message ink.net... Thank you so much, Peter! It works great, in the header, too! And your directions are so clear :-) The only thing I can't finess is how to make it print like March 25, 2005 instead of 3/25/05. I experimented with some variations of what Graham wrote above, but I was unable to make it work. Can I impose on you one more time for this final step? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... It's an example of a "nested field". You can't usually enter them easily using e.g. Insert|Field, so... Use ctrl F9 to insert a pair of the special field braces {} Type QUOTE "" in between to give you { QUOTE "" } Put the insertion point between the "" and press ctrl-F9 to give you { QUOTE "{}" } Type DATE between the inner {} to give you { QUOTE "{ DATE }" } Peter Jamieson "Karen Hart" wrote in message ink.net... Hello Peter, I'm sorry I don't understand your reference below { QUOTE "{ DATE }" } Is this a merge field I put in the merge form? If so, how do I insert it? Thank you, Karen "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... How about { QUOTE "{ DATE }" } ? Peter Jamieson "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... This is not going to work That's what comes from not testing the suggestions before posting. Change the field back to a DATE field, update it, then merge to a new document CTRL+A then CTRL+SHIFT+F9 will fix it. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Karen Hart wrote: Thank you so much for replying, Graham. Coincidentally, I was on your web site checking it out exactly when your reply came :-) What a cool web site! I love it! And I love that cute little thing that follows my pointer around! Anyway, once again, I tried...I insert this into the merge MAIN document: {CREATEDATE \@ "MMMMd, yyyy" \* MERGEFORMAT}. But sure enough, when I merge it, this is what I see: August 24, 2000 (This is the date I originally created this merge source document). (Ctrl-A), (F9) is changing nothing, no matter if I do it before and/or after merging. Please help me out of the twilight zone!! Thanks again, Karen "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The date in the createdate in the merge source document is irrelevant. If you merge to a new document the date that document is created becomes the createdate for that document. If the field shows the wrong date select all (CTRL+A) then update (F9). That should fix it. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Karen Hart wrote: Graham, I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting merged document is displaying the date the original merge form was created...not the date the original merge form is being merged. Does that make sense? In other words, I changed the form document on Jan. 14 and coded the date to be CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form is merged, the resulting date displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing wrong? Thank you. Karen "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The new document will always show the date of the merge. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Karen Hart wrote: How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are several of these date codes throughout the form file, including headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user forgets to unlink the date field. Thank you in advance. Karen |
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