In Word, automate a field that generates the date 15 days out.

[crazycaper]

I am creating a Form letter, in which I need Word to automatically calculate
the date 15 days from the current date and put it into the desired field.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I am creating a Form letter, in which I need Word to automatically calculate
the date 15 days from the current date and put it into the desired field.

See if the tool posted here is what you're looking for:

http://www.chriswoodman.co.uk/Delayed Dates.htm

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Jay Freedman]

See http://www.gmayor.com/insert_a_date_other_than_today.htm and
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Roll_up-Roll_Back_Dates.htm.

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[crazycaper]

I love the gmayor one it works perfect! Is there an easy way to make it
display 08/09/06 ? Or would you have to rewrite the entire macro?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

This is more complex than you might imagine, but it can be done. See
http://addbalance.com/word/datefields2.htm for information on the different
kinds of ways to make a date calculation work. It includes links to
utilities to create the fields and an explanation of different macros that
can be used instead of fields. It also has a link to
www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=249902 which is a document
with various fields already created. Another resource is
http://www.gmayor.com/insert_a_date_other_than_today.htm.

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[Jay Freedman]

You only need to change one line. Look for the lines

'Date mask below includes non-breaking spaces (Chr(160))
Mask = "d" & Chr(160) & "MMMM" & Chr(160) & "yyyy" ' Set Date format

The first line is a comment, which you can delete or leave alone. The second
one controls the way the date appears. To make it show the format you want,
change that line to

Mask = "MM/dd/yy" ' Set Date format

(assuming you mean to have the month first and then the day).

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