MS Word Date Calculatoin

[Guest]

In MS Word I need to calculate Today's date plus 14 days. I am working on a
mail merge where I am looking for a reply 14 days from Today's date.

I attempted to use =DateAdd("d",14,Now())

However I receive a syntax error.

Thanks for the assistance

 

[Steve Yandl]

Would something like this work for you?

Selection.TypeText Format(Now + 14, "mmm dd, yyyy")


Steve

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

See http://www.gmayor.com/insert_a_date_other_than_today.htm .

 

[Jay Freedman]

It looks like the original poster was trying to use VBA syntax in a field
code, which will never work. Of course you can do it in VBA, but then you
need some way to fire the macro; and the result would be plain text rather
than a field that would update.

For field syntax, see
http://www.gmayor.com/insert_a_date_other_than_today.htm.

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[Guest]

Thank you for the assistance.

I have typed the following into the body of my document: {={Date}
=14}....however it appears as text. How do I make it function as and
expression?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

If you actually read the cited article, you would know why what you
typed will not work.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

If you really need to use VBA eexpressions in a merge, see

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk/t0004.htm

but please read /all/ of it, because it is usually better to use another
approach.