Is there a field for putting a future date in the document body?

[Guest]

I send out payment demand notices. Is there a way I can have a field in Word
that would put a must respond by date of 10 days in the future from today's
date on top of the document?

 

[Jezebel]

1. Open the template you use for these notices.

2. Go to File > Properties. Add a Custom property called RespondBy. Set the
type to Date and add a date value (doesn't matter what date - it's just a
dummy for setup purposes).

3. In the body of the document, where you want the date to appear, insert a
DocProperty field: { DocProperty RespondBy }.

4. Add this macro to the template ---

Public Sub AutoNew()
ActiveDocument.CustomDocumentProperties("RespondBy") = Now + 10
ActiveDocument.Fields.Update
End Sub

 

[Graham Mayor]

Yes, but it is complicated - see
http://www.gmayor.com/insert_a_date_other_than_today.htm

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[Charles Kenyon]

This is more complex than you might imagine, but it can be done. See
http://addbalance.com/word/datefields2.htm for information on the different
kinds of ways to make a date calculation work. It includes links to
utilities to create the fields and an explanation of different macros that
can be used instead of fields. It also has a link to
www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=249902 which is a document
with various fields already created.

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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