Autocompletion of date

[Ali]

Hi,

Whenever I start to type in a date in the English format
(ie dd mmm yyyy), or if I just type 2004, I get a pop-up
autocompletion suggestion, but always in the American
style, ie yyyy-mm-dd. Is there any way to change the pop-
up to what I actually want, ie dd mmm yyyy?

Regards

Ali Smith

 

[Greg]

Ali,

I don't think so. That Autocomplete date feature is
fickle anyway. You likely to experience inconsistant
behavior at times.

I use a macro asigned to a keyboard short cut to enter a
date stamp in my documents:

Sub DateStamp()
' Inserts current date
Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="dd MMM yyyy",
InsertAsField:=False
End Sub


Note your format picture should be MMM vice mmm.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Greg's solution is best for UK users. If you want the date with ordinals
(especially superscripted ordinals) it gets a bit more complicated - see
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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