I managed to get there in the end!!! Your document is really good - just it
take a while to work out what the code represents (eg the one for today's
date).

Thanks a million!!!

Bianca

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

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. (You would be starting from your mergefield rather than from a
regular date field.)

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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!
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I have a merge document set up that uses a data source from a database. I
need to compute a date field to give me the date 1 day before the date
from
the data. How do I do that?