Day and Date Formula in Word Table

[brent01]

Does anybody know what formula I should use in a Microsft Word Table cell, so that a day and date are calculated automatically?

Currently I open a document type in or change the day and date, save the document and then print it.

What I wish to do is just print the document with the day and date correctly calculated by a formula.

I have to change two dates in seperate cells, within the same document e.g -

'Wednesday 25th May 2005' (current day & date, for example)

'Thursday 26th May 2005' (next days, day & date)

This must be so easy, but much as I try, I cant get it right.

Any guidance would be most appreciated.

Thanks

 

[BobStubbs]

You can get today's day and date in a table cell like this:

-- Click in the table cell.
-- Choose the Insert ... Field menu option
-- Click Date and Time in the categories list
-- Choose your required date from the right-hand list
-- Click the [Options] button
-- Choose the dddd, dd MMMM yyyy formatting option

Your cell will now display e.g. Thursday, 26 May 2005

I can't find a way to generate tomorrow's date. I have tried obvious ideas, like the VBA keywords (TODAY + 1) and (NOW + 1), but I don't think the 'language' behind table formulae is clever enough to recognise these.

I hope this is of some help.

Bob Stubbs

 

[fumei]

Hmmm, it works if it is a formfield set as a date type + 1.

Gerry
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[macropod]

Hi Brent,

For a tutorial on field-based date & time calculations in Word, plus practical examples you can insert into your own documents, check out:

http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wrd&Number=249902

Cheers