text form field calculations with dates?

[Jed Sutter]

Hi
I'm trying to have my form list the age, in days, of an item. I was using
mm/dd/yy for the date format but Word 2003 decided that I was trying to
perform division on each date. Any suggestions?
Also, I can't seem to get brackets around my bookmarks. Thanks for any help

 

[Jay Freedman]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:17:01 -0700, Jed Sutter <Jed

Hi
I'm trying to have my form list the age, in days, of an item. I was using
mm/dd/yy for the date format but Word 2003 decided that I was trying to
perform division on each date. Any suggestions?
Also, I can't seem to get brackets around my bookmarks. Thanks for any help

Everything you'll ever want to know about dates in fields is in
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wrd&Number=249902.

In general, if you want to see where the bookmarks are, go to Tools >
Options > View and check "Bookmarks". If you mean specifically the
bookmarks associated with form fields, open the field's Properties
dialog and make sure there is a name in the Bookmarks box. Every
bookmark name must be unique within the document; if you try to assign
the same name a second time, it will "steal" it from the first
location and leave that one blank.