How do I get date to automatically enter in Word?

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I type Sept and Word finishes September. I space and the rest of the date
doesn't show up. I have to type the day and year. How do I fix this in Word
2003? I've looked in autotext. It works on my home machine but not on my
networked classroom machines.
 
Teach35,

You can't. It is just the way of the Word ;-). Sometimes that feature
works and sometimes it doesn't.

I use a date stamp macro assigned to keyboard shortcut ALT+SHIFT+D


Sub DateStamp()

' Inserts current date

Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="MMMM dd, yyyy",
InsertAsField:=False
End Sub
 
I've encountered the same problem. Sometimes I need to press the
Backspace to remove the space and type the space again before the
AutoComplete tip displays.

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