Automatically insert the current date

"garfield-n-odie" wrote in message
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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.

Great! That's exactly what I want.
Make out an invoice, print two copies, one for customer one for file,
with the current date. Delete invoice and Word asks "Do you want to save
changes made to invoice" Click on No......template is now ready for next
customer.

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
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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.


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

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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.


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.
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