Field Codes

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I've been messing with forms for too long today. I did go to the site that
many of you recommend such as:

http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm
http://word.mvps.org/

I downloaded a couple of examples, but they didn't show what I was looking
for.

I managed to use Field codes to create an entry where you enter the birthday
and it prints your age. But then I lost it and when I tried to toggle field
codes, it would not come back because I had the data entered. I can't copy
field codes from another file and paste it in. Is there a way to do it so I
don't have to retype everything?

Plus, I would like the birth date to go into one table cell and the age in
another. I can only make them appear in the same cell using the Field code
insert. How do you separate them out?

I am sure macros are a good way to go... have not quite got them figured out
yet. Thanks.

Meryl
 
Date calculations using fields are complex. The instructions for doing this
and the field codes to copy to your document can be found at
www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=249902. Based on this
article, you can amend the code to run from a form field. Call the formfield
BirthDate, set is properties as a date type of field and set the calculate
on exit check box. In the body of the text at the place ytou want the field,
you need to create the following construction. (Copy it from the
aforementioned article and paste it to your document - then amend it to
match. Simply copying from this newsgroup posting will not work).

{QUOTE
{SET by {BirthDate \@ yyyy}}
{SET bm {BirthDate \@ M}}
{SET bd {BirthDate \@ d}}
{SET yy {DATE \@ yyyy}}
{SET mm {DATE \@ M}}
{SET dd {DATE \@ d}}
{SET
md{=IF((mm=2),28+(mm=2)*((MOD(yy,4)=0)+(MOD(yy,400)=0)-(MOD(yy,100)=0)),31-(
(mm=4)+(mm=6)+(mm=9)+(mm=11)))}}
{Set Years{=yy-by-(mm<bm)-(mm=bm)*(dd<bd)}}
{Years}" Year{IF{Years}= 1 "" s}"}

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