Is it possible to format an annually incrementing number in a Word.doc so
that, ie, "Joe has 15 years of experience" automatically updates (increments)
to "Joe has 16 years of experience", one year after a specified date. This
would allow years of service to be embedded in resumes maintenance-free, as
well as enable corp comm groups to keep their company history texts up to
date, and a host of other applications. Same goes for monthly, bi-annual,
semi-monthly, etc.

Is it possible? Yes. Would I want to do it? No.

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
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...?Number=249902 which is a document
with various fields already created.

--
Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"BobW" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:C9A059AC-3054-4343-A2C6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is it possible to format an annually incrementing number in a Word.doc so
> that, ie, "Joe has 15 years of experience" automatically updates
> (increments)
> to "Joe has 16 years of experience", one year after a specified date.
> This
> would allow years of service to be embedded in resumes maintenance-free,
> as
> well as enable corp comm groups to keep their company history texts up to
> date, and a host of other applications. Same goes for monthly, bi-annual,
> semi-monthly, etc.

You can get a rough approximation with a calculated field such as { = { DATE
\@ yyyy } - 1992 }. This will roll over on January 1, obviously, rather than
the actual anniversary date. If Word could handle serial dates (number of
days since January 1, 1900) or even days of the year 1-365, more precision
would be possible.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"BobW" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:C9A059AC-3054-4343-A2C6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is it possible to format an annually incrementing number in a Word.doc so
> that, ie, "Joe has 15 years of experience" automatically updates
(increments)
> to "Joe has 16 years of experience", one year after a specified date.
This
> would allow years of service to be embedded in resumes maintenance-free,
as
> well as enable corp comm groups to keep their company history texts up to
> date, and a host of other applications. Same goes for monthly, bi-annual,
> semi-monthly, etc.

I can see where Charles would not want to do this; any discrepancies with a
user's date/time settings, or a document control system server's date/time
settings, could cause a real mess wherever these fields were embedded in
documents.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

> You can get a rough approximation with a calculated field such as { = { DATE
> \@ yyyy } - 1992 }. This will roll over on January 1, obviously, rather than
> the actual anniversary date. If Word could handle serial dates (number of
> days since January 1, 1900) or even days of the year 1-365, more precision
> would be possible.
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
> Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
> all may benefit.
>
> "BobW" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:C9A059AC-3054-4343-A2C6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Is it possible to format an annually incrementing number in a Word.doc so
> > that, ie, "Joe has 15 years of experience" automatically updates
> (increments)
> > to "Joe has 16 years of experience", one year after a specified date.
> This
> > would allow years of service to be embedded in resumes maintenance-free,
> as
> > well as enable corp comm groups to keep their company history texts up to
> > date, and a host of other applications. Same goes for monthly, bi-annual,
> > semi-monthly, etc.
>
>