Hi Russ,

You could spend a completely ridiculous amount of time forcing this to work
in Word with macros, and it probably would never work right anyway.

Instead, do it in Excel, which has the necessary cell formulas and
formatting controls. If you need to make it part of a Word document, copy
the Excel spreadsheet and paste-link it into Word. The hardest part is that
you'll probably have to link one page worth at a time, since Word can't
spread inserted objects across page breaks.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Russ wrote:
I'm working with a table that spans several pages in Word 2003 in
which I want to insert dates much like a numbered list. Also, this
table will have data that will be moved around within the table. I'm
looking to be able to have the dates update automatically if they are
moved around. To help explain, here's a before-and-after example:
1 11/16/05
1 11/16/05
2 11/17/05 - if I delete this row I want - 2
11/17/05
3 11/18/05

- A two-column three-row table, as shown above; first column has a
number list 1, 2, & 3 using the autonumbering function (if that's the
term for it... it's the toolbar button)
- Second column has dates mm/dd/yy from say 11/16/05 - 11/18/05
Typically, what would happen to the number list if I were to delete
row 2, is row three would shift upwards and the list number would
then become "2" instead of "3". I'm looking for this same
functionality with the dates I put in the cells, so if I were to
delete row 2 from the table, the number, date, and contents of any
other cells on that row would stay together and move up. I hope I
made my problem clear.

I've searched through all 21 pages of this forum and could not find
anything posted about this. Any ideas?

Thanks much,
Russ