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Default How to calculate a Future Date?

Currently, I am working on creating a Purchase Order for my company that will
be published online using Word (because that is what is required). Normally
for this sort of task I would use Excel.

Here is my problem:

The date the Purchase Order is generated by the customer should remain
contant with today's date but for all items that they listed on the Purchase
Order it needs to reflect 6 weeks into the future (ship date).

Today's Date: 5/22/06
Ship Date: 7/3/06

Can someone teach me how I would possibly go about doing that or if it is
even plausible?

ToniEPC


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Default How to calculate a Future Date?

This is more complex than you might imagine, but it can be done. See
http://addbalance.com/word/datefields2.htm for information on the different
kinds of ways to make a date calculation work. It includes links to
utilities to create the fields and an explanation of different macros that
can be used instead of fields. It also has a link to
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...?Number=249902 which is a document
with various fields already created. Another resource is
http://www.gmayor.com/insert_a_date_...than_today.htm.

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Currently, I am working on creating a Purchase Order for my company that
will
be published online using Word (because that is what is required).
Normally
for this sort of task I would use Excel.

Here is my problem:

The date the Purchase Order is generated by the customer should remain
contant with today's date but for all items that they listed on the
Purchase
Order it needs to reflect 6 weeks into the future (ship date).

Today's Date: 5/22/06
Ship Date: 7/3/06

Can someone teach me how I would possibly go about doing that or if it is
even plausible?

ToniEPC




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