[Chris Stammers]

Thanks Graham. It's far from a problem, because I never wanted the date to
change anyway!

Regards,
Chris

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

I suspect the problem is simply a reluctance to automatically update a
calculated field on a document that has been re-opened. However if you merge
the document, the calculated field in the merged document is converted to
text and so cannot be updated.

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Chris Stammers wrote:
Thanks Graham. I did manage to get it to work however I had to change
the SET DELAY to 42! I suspect that this is because, when it was left
at 14, it is taking 14 days away from a proper, created date field,
therefore making the result 28 days in the past rather than 14 days
in the future. This is what one of our lead programmers thought. I
have decided instead to use the word system date, which obviously
works. I do have a question on that though: the first time I used
this code, the future date used to come through on the finished
merged documents as a mergefield, much like { DATE } does, and would
change when you opened the document a few days later. This doesn't
seem to be happening now, and the future date seems hard coded to the
merged document. Has something changed within the code, or do newer
versions of word handle this type of programming differently?

Thanks.

Regards,
Chris

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

If { MERGEFIELD YYYCZ1 } produces a date with the ordinal, there is
no way that you can use the calculated fields to produce a future
date. Word fields do not allow extraction of parts of the field to
enable you to lose the ordinal. Your best bet is to explore the
possibility of exporting your data without the ordinal i.e. as
28/05/2008.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



Chris Stammers wrote:
Hello,

I have this code which was given to me before however the date field
I am trying to calculate from is formatted in our AS400 as 28th May
2008, so is a full date without day, but including ordinals. My
question is this: how do I amend this code to allow for the format
of the original field, in this case, the AS400 field would be
placed in a document as { MERGEFIELD YYYCZ1 }. The code I have is
below.

Many thanks.

Regards,
Chris

{QUOTE{SET Delay 14}{SET a{=INT((14-{MERGEFIELD DATEFIELD \@
M})/12)}}{SET b{={MERGEFIELD DATEFIELD \@ yyyy}+4800-a}}{SET
c{={MERGEFIELD DATEFIELD \@ M}+12*a-3}}{SET d{MERGEFIELD DATEFIELD
\@ d}}{SET
jd{=d+INT((153*c+2)/5)+365*b+INT(b/4)-INT(b/100)+INT(b/400)-32045+Delay}}{SET
e{=INT((4*(jd+32044)+3)/146097)}}{SET
f{=jd+32044-INT(146097*e/4)}}{SET g{=INT((4*f+3)/1461)}}{SET
h{=f-INT(1461*g/4)}}{SET i{=INT((5*h+2)/153)}}{SET
dd{=h-INT((153*i+2)/5)+1}}{SET mm{=i+3-12*INT(i/10)}}{SET
yy{=100*e+g-4800+INT(i/10)}}{=dd*10^6+mm*10^4+yy \#
"00'-'00'-'0000"} \@ "dddd, d MMMM yyyy"}