[Wraithchilde]

I did a search on this but found nothing. I would think it would be a known
issue.

I have a date form field, format MMMM YYYY. If I enter "10/06" the result is
"October 2007". I'm not sure how it figures "2007" from "06", but it does. Is
there a resolution for this?

[Jay Freedman]

Word evaluates the entry in terms of MM/dd/yyyy before it applies your
formatting. It looks at "10/06" and evaluates it as October 6 in the current
year. Then the MMMM YYYY formatting strips out the dd part and leaves you
with October 2007. If you try the same input a year from now, the field will
display October 2008.

The only resolution I know of would be to enter a full three-part date with
any valid day, such as "10/1/06".

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Wraithchilde wrote:
I did a search on this but found nothing. I would think it would be a
known issue.

I have a date form field, format MMMM YYYY. If I enter "10/06" the
result is "October 2007". I'm not sure how it figures "2007" from
"06", but it does. Is there a resolution for this?

[Wraithchilde]

Thanks for the answer. That clarified what goes on behind the field well.

There is another solution, which is to type "10/2006", but you have to
understand the people I'm working with. Typing the extra two digits increases
the complexity of their job (in their mind) such that they might ask for a
raise. In the least they'll probably ask me to write a macro that will handle
the date so they can continue to enter only the minimum number of digits.

[Jay Freedman]

Wraithchilde wrote:
Thanks for the answer. That clarified what goes on behind the field
well.

There is another solution, which is to type "10/2006", but you have to
understand the people I'm working with. Typing the extra two digits
increases the complexity of their job (in their mind) such that they
might ask for a raise. In the least they'll probably ask me to write
a macro that will handle the date so they can continue to enter only
the minimum number of digits.

LOL -- I guess there's no harm in asking.