Re: Automatically insert the current date
From: Graham Mayor (gmayor_at_NOSPAMmvps.org)
Date: 05/31/04
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Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 12:29:37 +0100
It might be easier still to insert the date in the required format using a
macro - see the examples at the end of
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm. You could re-assign the
ALT+SHIFT+D sequence to the macro - or use another shortcut of your
choosing.
-- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< garfield-n-odie wrote: > Don't know what to tell you. It should work from what you've posted. > As a workaround, you can press Alt+Shift+D to insert a current date > field, then highlight the date field and press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to > convert the field to text. Might be easier to just type the date > than to remember the shortcut keys. > > > MikeW wrote: > >> "garfield-n-odie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in >> message news:OaSBG$pREHA.3616@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... >> >>> Are you typing the date on the very first line of the document? If >> >> so, >> >>> that could be why... Word doesn't always recognize the four >>> characters you type on the first line of a document as being an >>> autotext entry. >> >> If >> >>> you hit the enter key a couple of times before you type May<space>, >> >> Word >> >>> should offer an autocomplete suggestion. >> >> >> Afraid not. Have tried several locations on the document, same >> result. In addition I have also done a uninstall/reinstall of Word. >> >>> If your system date is May xx, then typing Janu or Febr will only >>> get you a suggestion for January or February, not a whole date. >>> There is >> >> no >> >>> autocomplete suggestion for the months of March, April, May, June, >>> or July apparently because Microsoft decided the names are too >>> short to need autocompleting. >> >> >> Thanks for that, still learning. >> <snip>
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