Date Formatting on Title Slide

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I'm pulling out my hair on this one! I use PowerPoint XP, 2003, and 2007
on various machines.

(1) I want the title slide's single date format, the four digit year, to
automatically update. I've been unable to find - anywhere - how to do this.
Why Microsoft would have an oversight like this, I'll never know. I don't
want to use the Slidemaster placeholders (which I hate!) but merely update
the year. I use PPT for college teaching and want to NOT have to even
think about the year.

(2) Better still, I'd like some help on how do create a script that could
figure out the month and date and add it in front of the date (year) as a
"Spring", "Summer" or "Fall" semester prefix. I'm Visual Basic impaired - I
program only in Delphi, so I do understant OOP and property boxes.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

--Bob--


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