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Automatically insert the current date
Word 2000
Autocomplete is turned on Automatically insert the current date is not working. I type the first four characters of the month, for example febr and the word February is displayed in a screen tip. I then press enter and February is inserted. I then type a space, and nothing, other than a space. It used to work in the past without any problems. In addition I have noticed that the screen tip only appears for the following months, January, February, August, September, October, November and December. Any help to try and solve this issue would be appreciated MikeW |
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Because the current date is not in February? Assuming your computer's
system date is correct, if you type M-a-y-space, do you get the current date suggestion? MikeW wrote: Word 2000 Autocomplete is turned on Automatically insert the current date is not working. I type the first four characters of the month, for example febr and the word February is displayed in a screen tip. I then press enter and February is inserted. I then type a space, and nothing, other than a space. It used to work in the past without any problems. In addition I have noticed that the screen tip only appears for the following months, January, February, August, September, October, November and December. Any help to try and solve this issue would be appreciated MikeW |
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"garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... Because the current date is not in February? Assuming your computer's system date is correct, if you type M-a-y-space, do you get the current date suggestion? No. If I type "may" then a space all I get is May, no screen tip. Computer system date and time is correct. MikeW wrote: Word 2000 Autocomplete is turned on Automatically insert the current date is not working. I type the first four characters of the month, for example febr and the word February is displayed in a screen tip. I then press enter and February is inserted. I then type a space, and nothing, other than a space. It used to work in the past without any problems. In addition I have noticed that the screen tip only appears for the following months, January, February, August, September, October, November and December. Any help to try and solve this issue would be appreciated MikeW |
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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 Mayspace, Word should offer an autocomplete suggestion. 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. MikeW wrote: "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... Because the current date is not in February? Assuming your computer's system date is correct, if you type M-a-y-space, do you get the current date suggestion? No. If I type "may" then a space all I get is May, no screen tip. Computer system date and time is correct. MikeW wrote: Word 2000 Autocomplete is turned on Automatically insert the current date is not working. I type the first four characters of the month, for example febr and the word February is displayed in a screen tip. I then press enter and February is inserted. I then type a space, and nothing, other than a space. It used to work in the past without any problems. In addition I have noticed that the screen tip only appears for the following months, January, February, August, September, October, November and December. Any help to try and solve this issue would be appreciated MikeW |
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"garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... 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 Mayspace, 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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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" wrote in message ... 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 Mayspace, 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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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" wrote in message ... 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 Mayspace, 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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It is not just you. The autocomplete date feature is fickle in Word2000 and
2002. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Some say that ignoring the Month complete and finishing typing with the space will increase the odds of you getting the date. But it is still hit and miss. I reassigned ALT+SHIFT+ D to fire the following macro: Sub DateStamp() ' Inserts current date Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="MMMM dd, yyyy", InsertAsField:=False End Sub -- Greg Maxey A peer in "peer to peer" support Rockledge, FL To e-mail, edit out the "w...spam" in MikeW wrote: Word 2000 Autocomplete is turned on Automatically insert the current date is not working. I type the first four characters of the month, for example febr and the word February is displayed in a screen tip. I then press enter and February is inserted. I then type a space, and nothing, other than a space. It used to work in the past without any problems. In addition I have noticed that the screen tip only appears for the following months, January, February, August, September, October, November and December. Any help to try and solve this issue would be appreciated MikeW |
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"garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... 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. I think we might be getting somewhere. I pressed Alt+Shift+D and that inserted the current date (01/06/2004) in a field. There was no need to highlight and press Ctrl+Shift+F9. In fact I did, out of curiosity, but nothing happened. The main reason for my post is that I use Word to make out invoices for my business from a saved template. I will now have to wait 23 hours to see if the date changes automatically. Many thanks for all your help and to Graham Mayor and Greg Maxey for responding. I will let you all know in 23 hours. MikeW wrote: "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... 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 Mayspace, 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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Highlighting the date field and pressing Ctrl+Shift+F9 changes the field
from a field to text. If you skip this part, the date will change to the current system date each time you open the file. If you want to insert a date field into an invoice template, it might be better to insert a Createdate field (Insert | Field | Field names: Createdate). As the name suggests, the Createdate field inserts the date the document was created, and you don't have to do the Ctrl+Shift+F9 thing to it. MikeW wrote: "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... 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. I think we might be getting somewhere. I pressed Alt+Shift+D and that inserted the current date (01/06/2004) in a field. There was no need to highlight and press Ctrl+Shift+F9. In fact I did, out of curiosity, but nothing happened. The main reason for my post is that I use Word to make out invoices for my business from a saved template. I will now have to wait 23 hours to see if the date changes automatically. Many thanks for all your help and to Graham Mayor and Greg Maxey for responding. I will let you all know in 23 hours. MikeW wrote: "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... 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 Mayspace, 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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