I have a dilemma. I am trying to change a date field in word from 10/20/00 to
October 20, 2000? Can anyone help me. Thanks

You need a date formatting switch on the field
eg {DATE \@ "MMMM d, yyyy"}
See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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chill wrote:
I have a dilemma. I am trying to change a date field in word from
10/20/00 to October 20, 2000? Can anyone help me. Thanks

Press Alt+F9 to display field codes. You'll see something like
{ DATE \@ "M/d/yy" }. Change the M/d/yy part to: "MMM d, YYYY" so that
you have: { DATE \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" }. Press F9 to update. Press Alt+F9
again to re-display the field result.

Note, however, that if the date was really inserted as a DATE field,
it will update to the current system date; if you prefer to display
the *creation date* of the file, replace the DATE part with
CREATEDATE. In other words, you need the following field: { CREATEDATE
\@ "MMMM d, yyyy" }.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"chill" wrote in message
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I have a dilemma. I am trying to change a date field in word from
10/20/00 to
October 20, 2000? Can anyone help me. Thanks