Creating/Calculating Lapsed Time

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OK, I want to try this in Microsoft Word, but I have no idea as to
how... Here it goes...

I am trying to take a date, like 10-05-2006 and I want to know how many
months and days have gone by since then every time I open the
document... Is there a way of doing this?
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