Dynamically updating date

[NIA2]

Hi everyone,

I need to put a field in my Word document that updates the date dynamically. The only problem is that I need it to take the following format:

dated [XX] day of [MM], [YYYY].

So the field would have to be broken up somehow to allow me to put in the extra words, ie. 'dated' and 'day of'.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks for any help offered

 

[Andrzejek]

Debug.Print "dated " & Day(Date) & " day of " & Format(Date, "MM, YYYY")

[blue]dated 25 day of 03, 2008[/blue]

Debug.Print "dated " & Day(Date) & " day of " & Format(Date, "MMM, YYYY")

[blue]dated 25 day of Mar, 2008[/blue]

Debug.Print "dated " & Day(Date) & " day of " & Format(Date, "MMMM, YYYY")

[blue]dated 25 day of March, 2008[/blue]

Is that what you are looking for?

Have fun.

---- Andy

 

[fneily]

Type Dated, then hit spacebar. Click Insert - Field. Under Categories, select Date And Time. On right, select Date. At bottom, select Options. At bottom, you'll see the function Date. Next to it, with a space, type \@ "d". Then click Ok, Ok. So you'll see Dated 25 (or whatever day it is). Then type Day of . Then Insert - Field. Same as above but with \@ "MM, yyyy" (capital M). Note you can save these formats.

 

[NIA2]

Thanks for both replies - that's exactly what I was looking for.

 

[macropod]

Hi gwh2,

To see how to do just about everything else you might want to do with dates in Word using fields, check out my Date Calc 'tutorial', at:

http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=249902

or

http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#Third_party

You'll even see how to get "dated [XX] day of [MM], [YYYY]" to have the 'XX' part expressed as a superscripted ordinal!

Cheers

[MS MVP - Word]