Macropod,

I had to convert the formulas for American date format (MMM/DD/YYYY) to get
the date arithmetic to display as intended (per original question regarding
adding 120 days to a merged date). Could it be that the superscripting is
suffering the same fate, i.e., expecting European be receiving American
formatted dates?

At any rate, your work with the code fields is amazing. Thanks, very much
for providing it in a public forum.

Regards,
UsedBits

"macropod" wrote:

Hi UsedBits,

I don't understand how you got "Thursday, the 16rd of December, 2004" - the
same field returns "Thursday, the 16th of December, 2004" for me, with
superscripting.

Cheers

"UsedBits" wrote in message
...
Charles & MacroPod,

All I can say is "Wow!" Thanks!

I first saw this kind of date arithmetic way back in the early eighties
when
working on the lowly IBM system/34 RPG-based system. We had a bunch of
this
stuff for doing date arithmetic, including leap year. However, not only
did
I not know in Word how to 'parse the dates' as you have shown, I had
completely forgotten about all that stuff.

Oh - there is an error in the WOPR document. It incorrectly displays the
superscripted date (Insert A Date with Text using a Form Field). December
16, 2004 displays as "Thursday, the 16rd of December, 2004". The 'rd' is
not
superscripted.

Again, this is an amazing piece of work. It has opened a whole new world!

Regards,
UsedBits

"UsedBits" wrote:

I'm trying display a date with 120 days added to it. The date is merged
into
the document. The following formula {=DateAdd("d",120,{ MERGEFIELD
"ODP_DATE" } ) } simply displays the formula as a text literal with the
merged date whether or not contained in a 1x1 table.

The document reads something like this:

You have 120 days from {MERGEFIELD ODP_DATE} to return service. The new
date is {=DateAdd("d",120,{ MERGEFIELD "ODP_DATE" })}.