Re: Specific formatting of the date

Thanks to both... I had the MMMM, YYYY figured out but couldn't find the
right combination of date rd th nd to extract a meaningful hit on Google.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You'll have to do this in pieces. "2nd" and "August, 2005" will have to be
> separate fields.
>
> For "2nd" use { DATE \@ "d" \* Ordinal }
>
> "August, 2005" use { DATE \@ "MMMM, YYYY" }
>
> So the whole phrase would be:
>
> { DATE \@ "d" \* Ordinal } day of { DATE \@ "MMMM, YYYY" }
>
> For more, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm
>
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> Suzanne S. Barnhill
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> "Wowbagger" <none> wrote in message
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>> In Word 2003 how do I format an automatic date code so the text appears
>> in
>> the form of:
>>
>> 2nd day of August, 2005 ?
>>
>> I have the date part, but how do I get it to display the st, nd, rd and
>> th
>> suffix to the numerical day part?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>


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