I need to add a follow up date to the body of a letter that will
automatically update according to the current date. I created a macro for
this, but it doesn't change with the current date. It stays on 10 days from
the date the macro was created. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I'm on a
pretty short deadline with this... so any quick responses would be greatly
appreciated!

Thanks!

See
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...&Number=249902
and http://www.gmayor.com/insert_a_date_...than_today.htm .

Stacy wrote:

I need to add a follow up date to the body of a letter that will
automatically update according to the current date. I created a macro for
this, but it doesn't change with the current date. It stays on 10 days from
the date the macro was created. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I'm on a
pretty short deadline with this... so any quick responses would be greatly
appreciated!

Thanks!

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
utilities to create the fields and an explanation of different macros that
can be used instead of fields. It also has a link to
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...?Number=249902 which is a document
with various fields already created. Another resource is
http://www.gmayor.com/insert_a_date_...than_today.htm.

--
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!
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"Stacy" wrote in message
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I need to add a follow up date to the body of a letter that will
automatically update according to the current date. I created a macro for
this, but it doesn't change with the current date. It stays on 10 days
from
the date the macro was created. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I'm on
a
pretty short deadline with this... so any quick responses would be greatly
appreciated!

Thanks!