Ascending dates on consecutive pages in Word

[DJ]

I'm trying to format a large document that is to be read in order on
consecutive days. Is there a way to automatically format Word to insert the
date to be read either in a header/footer or in the body of the text? or do I
have to manually type the date on each and every page?

 

[Jezebel]

There's no automatic way ... unfortunately Word can't do arithmetic with
dates (unlike every other Office app). There are some techniques you can use
if you really have LOTS of pages to do: put each month in a new section. Use
a field entry like

{ = { PAGE } - nn } October 2004

in the header or footer, where nn is the first page of the section - 1. At
least, that's just one entry per month instead of one per day, which is not
a bad reduction.

 

[macropod]

Hi DJ,

To see how you can do this and much more than you ever thought you might
want to with dates, all using Word fields, download the Word document at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wrd&Number=365442
(url all one line)
Hint: use the 'Calculate a day, date, month and year, using n (301) days
delay' example on page 6 and change the delay parameter to {SET Delay
{={PAGE}-1}}. Then put the field into your document's header or footer.

Cheers
PS: Who said it can't be done!

 

[Jezebel]

Interesting document, but where are the date arithmetic examples?

 

[macropod]

Oops, wrong ref. Should have been:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wrd&Number=249902
(again, url all one line)

Cheers