You need curly braces inserted using Ctrl-F9 rather than anything you type.
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"Neil Howie" wrote in message
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Thanks, but despite my best efforts and a fair bit of research, I cannot
make this work. I have tried putting in the square brackets where the
insert field wizard suggests and quotes round the YYYY. In the few tries
concentrating on the bit after the hyphen, where I've not had a syntax
error, I still can't get Word 2000 to add 1.

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"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
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| Neil,
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| Something like:
| { Quote { Date \@ YYYY } - { =sum({ Date \@ YYYY },1) }}
| should last you a lifetime.
|
| --
| Greg Maxey/Word MVP
| See:
| http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
| For some helpful tips using Word.
|
| Neil Howie wrote:
| I have a booklet I print once a year. It currently has the year
range
| "2004-2005" on the front page. Rather than edit this every year, I
| would like it automatically updated. I can insert a date function
| with format "YYYY" for the current year, but how do I update the
| following year?
|
|