How do I get date to automatically enter in Word?

[Teach35]

I type Sept and Word finishes September. I space and the rest of the date
doesn't show up. I have to type the day and year. How do I fix this in Word
2003? I've looked in autotext. It works on my home machine but not on my
networked classroom machines.

 

[Greg Maxey]

Teach35,

You can't. It is just the way of the Word ;-). Sometimes that feature
works and sometimes it doesn't.

I use a date stamp macro assigned to keyboard shortcut ALT+SHIFT+D


Sub DateStamp()

' Inserts current date

Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="MMMM dd, yyyy",
InsertAsField:=False
End Sub

 

[Beth Melton]

I've encountered the same problem. Sometimes I need to press the
Backspace to remove the space and type the space again before the
AutoComplete tip displays.

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