I'm trying to put a field code into my Word 2002 document but having trouble
getting the syntax just right.

I want the field code to be replaced by the current year plus 1. Therefore,
if the document is being generated today, I want the field code to put 2007
at a specifc place within my document.

I know that the field code {DATE \@ "YYYY"} will give me the current year.

I'm struggling with how to write the field code that will give me the next
year. First of all, I'm not sure whether I can write an expression that adds
1 to year and display that result directly or whether I have to first
transform that result to a character string. Second, I'm not sure how to get
the result even as an integer.

To get an integer result, I'm guessing that I have to use an = formula,
something like this:

{={DATE \@ "YYYY"}+1}

To get a character string result, I'm guessing that I have to imbed all of
that in a QUOTE, something like this:

{QUOTE "{={DATE \@ "YYYY"} +1}/1 \@ "YYYY"}

This last guess was inspired by the Help article on QUOTE.

Unfortunately, I inevitably get a Syntax Error whenever I try to use either
approach, no matter how carefully I try to write the field code. (I'm a
veteran programmer and I know how important it is to get the syntax of a
statement just right.) What's worse is that everytime I get the Syntax
Error, the original field code is destroyed and I have to painstakingly type
it all in again rather than just altering it and trying it again.

Can anyone help me out?

--
Rhino

No need for a QUOTE field. This works just fine for me (Word 2003) with this
syntax:

{ = { DATE \@ "YYYY" } +1 }

Note the spaces.


--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Rhino" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to put a field code into my Word 2002 document but having
trouble
getting the syntax just right.

I want the field code to be replaced by the current year plus 1.
Therefore,
if the document is being generated today, I want the field code to put
2007
at a specifc place within my document.

I know that the field code {DATE \@ "YYYY"} will give me the current year.

I'm struggling with how to write the field code that will give me the next
year. First of all, I'm not sure whether I can write an expression that
adds
1 to year and display that result directly or whether I have to first
transform that result to a character string. Second, I'm not sure how to
get
the result even as an integer.

To get an integer result, I'm guessing that I have to use an = formula,
something like this:

{={DATE \@ "YYYY"}+1}

To get a character string result, I'm guessing that I have to imbed all of
that in a QUOTE, something like this:

{QUOTE "{={DATE \@ "YYYY"} +1}/1 \@ "YYYY"}

This last guess was inspired by the Help article on QUOTE.

Unfortunately, I inevitably get a Syntax Error whenever I try to use
either
approach, no matter how carefully I try to write the field code. (I'm a
veteran programmer and I know how important it is to get the syntax of a
statement just right.) What's worse is that everytime I get the Syntax
Error, the original field code is destroyed and I have to painstakingly
type
it all in again rather than just altering it and trying it again.

Can anyone help me out?

--
Rhino

There's got to be some kind of a knack that I'm just not getting here.

I tried doing a CTRL-F9 to produce a pair of heavy braces at the right point
in my document. That worked. Then, when I pasted the exact string you
provided in your note, including the spaces, that seemed to work too. But as
soon as I pressed the "Propagate" icon on the Mail Merge toolbar, the spot
where I had entered the field code said !Syntax Error, {.

VENT
I've been messing with this seemingly simple task of inputting a formula for
calculating the next year for something like two hours and my head's getting
sore from banging it on the wall. I seem to have tried every variation I can
imagine of DATE, SET, =, and everything else I could think of and it
inevitably gets me a syntax error!! What the heck is going on here?? I've
done a Google search on the newsgroup and seen several variations of your
suggestion supplied by various responders and none of them seem to have any
followup questions, which gives the impression that the original poster had
no problem using this formula in their documents. So why do I alone seem to
have problems with this?? Is there some kind of document wide setting that
has the wrong value or something??
/VENT

For what it's worth, I've also tried doing Insert/Field, selecting =, then
entering { DATE \@ "YYYY" } +1
in the Formula field, then choosing 0 as the number format. That doesn't
work either. I've tried using lowercase "yyyy" instead of "YYYY". That
didn't help. Everything leads me back to this Syntax Error.

What boneheaded mistake am I making here?

--
Rhino



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
No need for a QUOTE field. This works just fine for me (Word 2003) with
this
syntax:

{ = { DATE \@ "YYYY" } +1 }

Note the spaces.


--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Rhino" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to put a field code into my Word 2002 document but having
trouble
getting the syntax just right.

I want the field code to be replaced by the current year plus 1.
Therefore,
if the document is being generated today, I want the field code to put
2007
at a specifc place within my document.

I know that the field code {DATE \@ "YYYY"} will give me the current
year.

I'm struggling with how to write the field code that will give me the
next
year. First of all, I'm not sure whether I can write an expression that
adds
1 to year and display that result directly or whether I have to first
transform that result to a character string. Second, I'm not sure how to
get
the result even as an integer.

To get an integer result, I'm guessing that I have to use an = formula,
something like this:

{={DATE \@ "YYYY"}+1}

To get a character string result, I'm guessing that I have to imbed all
of
that in a QUOTE, something like this:

{QUOTE "{={DATE \@ "YYYY"} +1}/1 \@ "YYYY"}

This last guess was inspired by the Help article on QUOTE.

Unfortunately, I inevitably get a Syntax Error whenever I try to use
either
approach, no matter how carefully I try to write the field code. (I'm a
veteran programmer and I know how important it is to get the syntax of a
statement just right.) What's worse is that everytime I get the Syntax
Error, the original field code is destroyed and I have to painstakingly
type
it all in again rather than just altering it and trying it again.

Can anyone help me out?

--
Rhino

You did not mention a mail merge. Date fields are not compatible with mail
merges.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Rhino" wrote in message
...
There's got to be some kind of a knack that I'm just not getting here.

I tried doing a CTRL-F9 to produce a pair of heavy braces at the right
point
in my document. That worked. Then, when I pasted the exact string you
provided in your note, including the spaces, that seemed to work too. But
as
soon as I pressed the "Propagate" icon on the Mail Merge toolbar, the spot
where I had entered the field code said !Syntax Error, {.

VENT
I've been messing with this seemingly simple task of inputting a formula
for
calculating the next year for something like two hours and my head's
getting
sore from banging it on the wall. I seem to have tried every variation I
can
imagine of DATE, SET, =, and everything else I could think of and it
inevitably gets me a syntax error!! What the heck is going on here?? I've
done a Google search on the newsgroup and seen several variations of your
suggestion supplied by various responders and none of them seem to have
any
followup questions, which gives the impression that the original poster
had
no problem using this formula in their documents. So why do I alone seem
to
have problems with this?? Is there some kind of document wide setting that
has the wrong value or something??
/VENT

For what it's worth, I've also tried doing Insert/Field, selecting =, then
entering { DATE \@ "YYYY" } +1
in the Formula field, then choosing 0 as the number format. That doesn't
work either. I've tried using lowercase "yyyy" instead of "YYYY". That
didn't help. Everything leads me back to this Syntax Error.

What boneheaded mistake am I making here?

--
Rhino



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
No need for a QUOTE field. This works just fine for me (Word 2003) with
this
syntax:

{ = { DATE \@ "YYYY" } +1 }

Note the spaces.


--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Rhino" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to put a field code into my Word 2002 document but having
trouble
getting the syntax just right.

I want the field code to be replaced by the current year plus 1.
Therefore,
if the document is being generated today, I want the field code to put
2007
at a specifc place within my document.

I know that the field code {DATE \@ "YYYY"} will give me the current
year.

I'm struggling with how to write the field code that will give me the
next
year. First of all, I'm not sure whether I can write an expression that
adds
1 to year and display that result directly or whether I have to first
transform that result to a character string. Second, I'm not sure how
to
get
the result even as an integer.

To get an integer result, I'm guessing that I have to use an = formula,
something like this:

{={DATE \@ "YYYY"}+1}

To get a character string result, I'm guessing that I have to imbed all
of
that in a QUOTE, something like this:

{QUOTE "{={DATE \@ "YYYY"} +1}/1 \@ "YYYY"}

This last guess was inspired by the Help article on QUOTE.

Unfortunately, I inevitably get a Syntax Error whenever I try to use
either
approach, no matter how carefully I try to write the field code. (I'm a
veteran programmer and I know how important it is to get the syntax of
a
statement just right.) What's worse is that everytime I get the Syntax
Error, the original field code is destroyed and I have to painstakingly
type
it all in again rather than just altering it and trying it again.

Can anyone help me out?

--
Rhino

So you're saying that there's no way to put the current year plus 1
(whatever the current year is when I run the mail merge) in each label of a
set of labels? No way at all?? Are you sure?

I find that surprising: Word seems pretty powerful and the task of putting a
date on each label seems pretty trivial. By the way, I can put the current
date on a label easily enough, it's just the result of adding 1 to the
current year that is giving me trouble. Considering that you can calculate
quantities like the current year plus 1 in other places within the document,
why not do the same in a mail merge?

By the way, I was able to get past the Syntax Error problem I reported
earlier. I now have perfectly valid looking code that doesn't give me an
error message:

{ DATE = {={DATE \@ yyyy} + 1}}

However, although the expression seems to be calculating the current year
plus 1, the result of the calculation always seems to be the current year
NOT the current year plus 1. For what it's worth, I have tried umpteen
variations of this formula, some of which used CREATEDATE instead of DATE
and some of which used "yyyy" instead of yyyy, but I always get the current
year, not current year plus 1. I've tried adding numbers much greater than
1 - on the theory that 1 might have been interpreted as 1 millisecond
instead of 1 year in this expression - but even with huge numbers like
99999999999999999, the result of the addition is always the current year.

--
Rhino

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
You did not mention a mail merge. Date fields are not compatible with mail
merges.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Rhino" wrote in message
...
There's got to be some kind of a knack that I'm just not getting here.

I tried doing a CTRL-F9 to produce a pair of heavy braces at the right
point
in my document. That worked. Then, when I pasted the exact string you
provided in your note, including the spaces, that seemed to work too. But
as
soon as I pressed the "Propagate" icon on the Mail Merge toolbar, the
spot
where I had entered the field code said !Syntax Error, {.

VENT
I've been messing with this seemingly simple task of inputting a formula
for
calculating the next year for something like two hours and my head's
getting
sore from banging it on the wall. I seem to have tried every variation I
can
imagine of DATE, SET, =, and everything else I could think of and it
inevitably gets me a syntax error!! What the heck is going on here?? I've
done a Google search on the newsgroup and seen several variations of your
suggestion supplied by various responders and none of them seem to have
any
followup questions, which gives the impression that the original poster
had
no problem using this formula in their documents. So why do I alone seem
to
have problems with this?? Is there some kind of document wide setting
that
has the wrong value or something??
/VENT

For what it's worth, I've also tried doing Insert/Field, selecting =,
then
entering { DATE \@ "YYYY" } +1
in the Formula field, then choosing 0 as the number format. That doesn't
work either. I've tried using lowercase "yyyy" instead of "YYYY". That
didn't help. Everything leads me back to this Syntax Error.

What boneheaded mistake am I making here?

--
Rhino



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
No need for a QUOTE field. This works just fine for me (Word 2003) with
this
syntax:

{ = { DATE \@ "YYYY" } +1 }

Note the spaces.


--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Rhino" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to put a field code into my Word 2002 document but having
trouble
getting the syntax just right.

I want the field code to be replaced by the current year plus 1.
Therefore,
if the document is being generated today, I want the field code to put
2007
at a specifc place within my document.

I know that the field code {DATE \@ "YYYY"} will give me the current
year.

I'm struggling with how to write the field code that will give me the
next
year. First of all, I'm not sure whether I can write an expression
that
adds
1 to year and display that result directly or whether I have to first
transform that result to a character string. Second, I'm not sure how
to
get
the result even as an integer.

To get an integer result, I'm guessing that I have to use an =
formula,
something like this:

{={DATE \@ "YYYY"}+1}

To get a character string result, I'm guessing that I have to imbed
all
of
that in a QUOTE, something like this:

{QUOTE "{={DATE \@ "YYYY"} +1}/1 \@ "YYYY"}

This last guess was inspired by the Help article on QUOTE.

Unfortunately, I inevitably get a Syntax Error whenever I try to use
either
approach, no matter how carefully I try to write the field code. (I'm
a
veteran programmer and I know how important it is to get the syntax of
a
statement just right.) What's worse is that everytime I get the Syntax
Error, the original field code is destroyed and I have to
painstakingly
type
it all in again rather than just altering it and trying it again.

Can anyone help me out?

--
Rhino

I get the current year plus 1 with the field I suggested--no problems. If
the date field is updated and correct in your mail merge main document
before you merge the labels, then it should probably be okay on the labels.
What I was (incorrectly) remembering is that a CREATEDATE field in the
header of a mail merge main document is converted to plain text (rather than
a CREATEDATE field) in the merged document, and so the date is always the
same in the resulting document.

But if you use a DATE field (as you are doing) and update it in the mail
merge main document before merging, it should work fine. Interestingly, when
I tried this the field was preserved in the merged document; I don't know
whether this is because it's a DATE field rather than a CREATEDATE field or
because it's a formula field.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Rhino" wrote in message
...
So you're saying that there's no way to put the current year plus 1
(whatever the current year is when I run the mail merge) in each label of
a
set of labels? No way at all?? Are you sure?

I find that surprising: Word seems pretty powerful and the task of putting
a
date on each label seems pretty trivial. By the way, I can put the current
date on a label easily enough, it's just the result of adding 1 to the
current year that is giving me trouble. Considering that you can calculate
quantities like the current year plus 1 in other places within the
document,
why not do the same in a mail merge?

By the way, I was able to get past the Syntax Error problem I reported
earlier. I now have perfectly valid looking code that doesn't give me an
error message:

{ DATE = {={DATE \@ yyyy} + 1}}

However, although the expression seems to be calculating the current year
plus 1, the result of the calculation always seems to be the current year
NOT the current year plus 1. For what it's worth, I have tried umpteen
variations of this formula, some of which used CREATEDATE instead of DATE
and some of which used "yyyy" instead of yyyy, but I always get the
current
year, not current year plus 1. I've tried adding numbers much greater than
1 - on the theory that 1 might have been interpreted as 1 millisecond
instead of 1 year in this expression - but even with huge numbers like
99999999999999999, the result of the addition is always the current year.

--
Rhino

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
You did not mention a mail merge. Date fields are not compatible with
mail
merges.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Rhino" wrote in message
...
There's got to be some kind of a knack that I'm just not getting here.

I tried doing a CTRL-F9 to produce a pair of heavy braces at the right
point
in my document. That worked. Then, when I pasted the exact string you
provided in your note, including the spaces, that seemed to work too.
But
as
soon as I pressed the "Propagate" icon on the Mail Merge toolbar, the
spot
where I had entered the field code said !Syntax Error, {.

VENT
I've been messing with this seemingly simple task of inputting a
formula
for
calculating the next year for something like two hours and my head's
getting
sore from banging it on the wall. I seem to have tried every variation
I
can
imagine of DATE, SET, =, and everything else I could think of and it
inevitably gets me a syntax error!! What the heck is going on here??
I've
done a Google search on the newsgroup and seen several variations of
your
suggestion supplied by various responders and none of them seem to have
any
followup questions, which gives the impression that the original poster
had
no problem using this formula in their documents. So why do I alone
seem
to
have problems with this?? Is there some kind of document wide setting
that
has the wrong value or something??
/VENT

For what it's worth, I've also tried doing Insert/Field, selecting =,
then
entering { DATE \@ "YYYY" } +1
in the Formula field, then choosing 0 as the number format. That
doesn't
work either. I've tried using lowercase "yyyy" instead of "YYYY". That
didn't help. Everything leads me back to this Syntax Error.

What boneheaded mistake am I making here?

--
Rhino



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
No need for a QUOTE field. This works just fine for me (Word 2003)
with
this
syntax:

{ = { DATE \@ "YYYY" } +1 }

Note the spaces.


--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Rhino" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to put a field code into my Word 2002 document but having
trouble
getting the syntax just right.

I want the field code to be replaced by the current year plus 1.
Therefore,
if the document is being generated today, I want the field code to
put
2007
at a specifc place within my document.

I know that the field code {DATE \@ "YYYY"} will give me the current
year.

I'm struggling with how to write the field code that will give me
the
next
year. First of all, I'm not sure whether I can write an expression
that
adds
1 to year and display that result directly or whether I have to
first
transform that result to a character string. Second, I'm not sure
how
to
get
the result even as an integer.

To get an integer result, I'm guessing that I have to use an =
formula,
something like this:

{={DATE \@ "YYYY"}+1}

To get a character string result, I'm guessing that I have to imbed
all
of
that in a QUOTE, something like this:

{QUOTE "{={DATE \@ "YYYY"} +1}/1 \@ "YYYY"}

This last guess was inspired by the Help article on QUOTE.

Unfortunately, I inevitably get a Syntax Error whenever I try to use
either
approach, no matter how carefully I try to write the field code.
(I'm
a
veteran programmer and I know how important it is to get the syntax
of
a
statement just right.) What's worse is that everytime I get the
Syntax
Error, the original field code is destroyed and I have to
painstakingly
type
it all in again rather than just altering it and trying it again.

Can anyone help me out?

--
Rhino

I'm not sure what Suzanne is thinking of here, but date and calculation
fields do work in mail merge.

You need CTRL+F9 for *each pair* of curly brackets and you need to end up
with the following

{ ={ DATE \@ "yyyy" } +1 } which currently will give you 2007. Press F9 to
update the field.

For more complex date calculations, see
http://www.gmayor.com/insert_a_date_...than_today.htm and for formatting,
see http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Rhino wrote:
So you're saying that there's no way to put the current year plus 1
(whatever the current year is when I run the mail merge) in each
label of a set of labels? No way at all?? Are you sure?

I find that surprising: Word seems pretty powerful and the task of
putting a date on each label seems pretty trivial. By the way, I can
put the current date on a label easily enough, it's just the result
of adding 1 to the current year that is giving me trouble.
Considering that you can calculate quantities like the current year
plus 1 in other places within the document, why not do the same in a
mail merge?
By the way, I was able to get past the Syntax Error problem I reported
earlier. I now have perfectly valid looking code that doesn't give me
an error message:

{ DATE = {={DATE \@ yyyy} + 1}}

However, although the expression seems to be calculating the current
year plus 1, the result of the calculation always seems to be the
current year NOT the current year plus 1. For what it's worth, I have
tried umpteen variations of this formula, some of which used
CREATEDATE instead of DATE and some of which used "yyyy" instead of
yyyy, but I always get the current year, not current year plus 1.
I've tried adding numbers much greater than 1 - on the theory that 1
might have been interpreted as 1 millisecond instead of 1 year in
this expression - but even with huge numbers like 99999999999999999,
the result of the addition is always the current year.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
You did not mention a mail merge. Date fields are not compatible
with mail merges.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Rhino" wrote in message
...
There's got to be some kind of a knack that I'm just not getting
here. I tried doing a CTRL-F9 to produce a pair of heavy braces at the
right point in my document. That worked. Then, when I pasted the
exact string you provided in your note, including the spaces, that
seemed to work too. But as soon as I pressed the "Propagate" icon
on the Mail Merge toolbar, the spot
where I had entered the field code said !Syntax Error, {.

VENT
I've been messing with this seemingly simple task of inputting a
formula for calculating the next year for something like two hours
and my head's getting sore from banging it on the wall. I seem to
have tried every variation I can imagine of DATE, SET, =, and
everything else I could think of and it inevitably gets me a syntax
error!! What the heck is going on here?? I've done a Google search
on the newsgroup and seen several variations of your suggestion
supplied by various responders and none of them seem to have any
followup questions, which gives the impression that the original
poster had no problem using this formula in their documents. So why
do I alone seem to have problems with this?? Is there some kind of
document wide setting that has the wrong value or something??
/VENT

For what it's worth, I've also tried doing Insert/Field, selecting
=, then
entering { DATE \@ "YYYY" } +1
in the Formula field, then choosing 0 as the number format. That
doesn't work either. I've tried using lowercase "yyyy" instead of
"YYYY". That didn't help. Everything leads me back to this Syntax
Error. What boneheaded mistake am I making here?

--
Rhino



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
No need for a QUOTE field. This works just fine for me (Word 2003)
with this
syntax:

{ = { DATE \@ "YYYY" } +1 }

Note the spaces.


--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Rhino" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to put a field code into my Word 2002 document but
having trouble getting the syntax just right.

I want the field code to be replaced by the current year plus 1.
Therefore, if the document is being generated today, I want the
field code to put 2007 at a specifc place within my document.

I know that the field code {DATE \@ "YYYY"} will give me the
current year.

I'm struggling with how to write the field code that will give me
the next
year. First of all, I'm not sure whether I can write an expression
that
adds
1 to year and display that result directly or whether I have to
first transform that result to a character string. Second, I'm
not sure how to get the result even as an integer.

To get an integer result, I'm guessing that I have to use an =
formula,
something like this:

{={DATE \@ "YYYY"}+1}

To get a character string result, I'm guessing that I have to
imbed all
of
that in a QUOTE, something like this:

{QUOTE "{={DATE \@ "YYYY"} +1}/1 \@ "YYYY"}

This last guess was inspired by the Help article on QUOTE.

Unfortunately, I inevitably get a Syntax Error whenever I try to
use either approach, no matter how carefully I try to write the
field code. (I'm a
veteran programmer and I know how important it is to get the
syntax of a statement just right.) What's worse is that everytime
I get the Syntax Error, the original field code is destroyed and
I have to painstakingly
type
it all in again rather than just altering it and trying it again.

Can anyone help me out?

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Rhino