Hi pcor,
To see how to do this and just about everything else you might want to do with dates in Word, check out my Date Calc 'tutorial', at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=249902
or
http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#Third_party
In particular, look at the items titled 'Interactively Calculate A Past Or Future Date' and 'Calculate a Stepped Date Range'. For
your purposes, you'll need to make some changes (mostly by deleting unnecessary bits of field coding). First copy both fields to
your document, then press Alt-F9 to expose the field coding.
With the first field, edit the coding so that it reads:
{QUOTE {ASK StartDate "What is the starting date, in dd/mm/yyyy format, please?"}
{SET a{=INT((14-{StartDate \@ M})/12)}}
{SET b{={StartDate \@ yyyy}+4800-a}}
{SET c{={StartDate \@ M}+12*a-3}}
{SET d{StartDate \@ d}}
{SET jd{=d+INT((153*c+2)/5)+365*b+INT(b/4)-INT(b/100)+INT(b/400)-32045}}
{IF{={IF{={StartDate \@ "dddd"}}= "!*" 0 1}+{IF{={StartDate \@ "MMMM"}}= "!*" 0 1}+{IF{a}= "!*" 1 0}}= 0 "{StartDate \@ "dddd, d
MMMM yyyy"}." "Data entry error!"}}
and change the 'dddd, d MMMM yyyy' mix/order to suit your needs. Note the deletion of '+Delay' from the 'SET jd' line.
With the second field, edit the coding so that it reads:
{QUOTE
{SET Delay 7}
{SET jd{=jd+Delay}}
{SET e{=INT((4*(jd+32044)+3)/146097)}}
{SET f{=jd+32044-INT(146097*e/4)}}
{SET g{=INT((4*f+3)/1461)}}
{SET h{=f-INT(1461*g/4)}}
{SET i{=INT((5*h+2)/153)}}
{SET dd{=h-INT((153*i+2)/5)+1}}
{SET mm{=i+3-12*INT(i/10)}}
{SET yy{=100*e+g-4800+INT(i/10)}}
{QUOTE"{dd}-{mm}-{yy}" \@ "dddd, d MMMM yyyy"}}
again, changing the 'dddd, d MMMM yyyy' mix/order to suit your needs. Note the change of 'SET Delay 6' to 'SET Delay 7'.
You can now make as many copies as you need of the second field, positioning them wherever you want the dates to go.
When you're done, toggle the filed codie display off again (Alt-F9), press Ctrl-A to select the whole document then F9 to update the
fields.
Cheers
