In a Word 03 doc, automatically updated text (such as a date) or a hyperlink
to an Internet or network address have had a normal appearance, but with a
gray box (text) or blue underline (hyperlink).

A few days ago, the appearance changed to the formatting rules. An example:

old way: February 21, 2008
now: { DATE\@ "MMMM d, yyyy" }

When I print to paper or .pdf, the date prints appropriately, but I would
like to have it appear that way on my monitor.

Thanks in advance for any help!

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"CarlaP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2C3F9DEA-8BB7-4800-805B-(E-Mail Removed)...
> In a Word 03 doc, automatically updated text (such as a date) or a
> hyperlink
> to an Internet or network address have had a normal appearance, but with a
> gray box (text) or blue underline (hyperlink).
>
> A few days ago, the appearance changed to the formatting rules. An
> example:
>
> old way: February 21, 2008
> now: { DATE\@ "MMMM d, yyyy" }
>
> When I print to paper or .pdf, the date prints appropriately, but I would
> like to have it appear that way on my monitor.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>
>

never mind, I figured it out!
thanks,
Carla

"CarlaP" wrote:

> In a Word 03 doc, automatically updated text (such as a date) or a hyperlink
> to an Internet or network address have had a normal appearance, but with a
> gray box (text) or blue underline (hyperlink).
>
> A few days ago, the appearance changed to the formatting rules. An example:
>
> old way: February 21, 2008
> now: { DATE\@ "MMMM d, yyyy" }
>
> When I print to paper or .pdf, the date prints appropriately, but I would
> like to have it appear that way on my monitor.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>