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Date and Time features in MSWord
We should not have to use 'work arounds' to try to establish the format of
dates and times. Please return to the programming in Word 2000. Instead of having Word only read "raw" data, let it use the formats we set in the data doc. Sign me, Frequently Perturbed with the changes in Word ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...merge.fi elds |
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You don't have to use work arounds, just use the method of connection to the
data source (DDE) that was used in earlier versions. To use that option, on the General tab of the ToolsOptions dialog, check the box against Confirm conversions at open. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "ARY" wrote in message ... We should not have to use 'work arounds' to try to establish the format of dates and times. Please return to the programming in Word 2000. Instead of having Word only read "raw" data, let it use the formats we set in the data doc. Sign me, Frequently Perturbed with the changes in Word ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...merge.fi elds |
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Fits my definition of a work around. Something that was seamless in prior
versions and now requires special settings. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You don't have to use work arounds, just use the method of connection to the data source (DDE) that was used in earlier versions. To use that option, on the General tab of the ToolsOptions dialog, check the box against Confirm conversions at open. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "ARY" wrote in message ... We should not have to use 'work arounds' to try to establish the format of dates and times. Please return to the programming in Word 2000. Instead of having Word only read "raw" data, let it use the formats we set in the data doc. Sign me, Frequently Perturbed with the changes in Word ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...merge.fi elds |
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I must say that I agree with ARY. Considering that Office is billed as an
"Office System" these days and is quite expensive, its components should work together as seamlessly as possible without the user having to take special actions. All the information available to DDE must be retrievable from the .xls (or Excel would not be able to recover it), so there's no reason in principle why the OLEDB provider should not be able to access it. In so many cases, you have to choose one connection method to achieve one thing, and another to achieve another thing. For example, DDE gets you the "data as displayed", but can only access the last-opened sheet. OLEDB lets you get any sheet, but only the "underlying" data. There are similar "one connection method does one thing, another does another" problems with both Access and Outlook as data sources. Another problem with DDE is that it requires you to have a copy of the orginating application. It also complicates the whole interaction unnecessarily because the application has to be opened, not just the underlying data file. Just my 2c worth Peter Jamieson "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... You don't have to use work arounds, just use the method of connection to the data source (DDE) that was used in earlier versions. To use that option, on the General tab of the ToolsOptions dialog, check the box against Confirm conversions at open. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "ARY" wrote in message ... We should not have to use 'work arounds' to try to establish the format of dates and times. Please return to the programming in Word 2000. Instead of having Word only read "raw" data, let it use the formats we set in the data doc. Sign me, Frequently Perturbed with the changes in Word ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...merge.fi elds |
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