Is there a format on Word that I can write in a journal daily?

[Guest]

I want to begin writing a journal on my computer. Can I do this on Word or do
I need a special program? If it is done on Word or another Office program,
will it be easy to save and open daily? Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can certainly create a journal in a Word document, but don't expect to
insert the date in any sort of automatic way (the best you can hope for is
that AutoComplete will work for you). Any sort of date field used in a
document will either update to the current date when the document is opened
or never change (either way, all your dates will be the same).

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[Andy]

You can certainly create a journal in a Word document, but don't expect to

insert the date in any sort of automatic way (the best you can hope for is
that AutoComplete will work for you). Any sort of date field used in a
document will either update to the current date when the document is opened
or never change (either way, all your dates will be the same).

How about a document with AutoOpen macro that would go to the end of
the document, insert the current date, select and then unlink the
field?

This seems to work, probably could use some editing:

Sub AutoOpen()
'
' AutoOpen Macro
' Macro recorded 09-19-04 by Andrew Mann
'
Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory
NormalTemplate.AutoTextEntries("Date").Insert Where:=Selection.Range, _
RichText:=True
Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdWord, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend
Selection.Fields.Unlink
Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory
Selection.TypeParagraph

End Sub

 

[Grizzman]

use outlook

 

[Graham Mayor]

That would work but it could be simpler -

With Selection
.EndKey Unit:=wdStory 'puts cursor at end
.TypeParagraph 'starts a new line
.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="MMMM d, yyyy", _
InsertAsField:=False 'types in date in the above format
.TypeParagraph 'starts a new line
End With


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[Andy]

That would work but it could be simpler -

Yes it could <g>

It's helpful to see how this sort of thing can be written
better than what gets recorded.