Inserting dates in Word 2004

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JO - 28 Apr 2006 18:25 GMT

Can anyone tell me how get "Insert > Date and time" to give me "Fri 28
Apr 2006"?
The Date-time box gives many other formats but not this.
System Prefs allows me to specify the format I want, but it is not
carried through to the Word options.

Using Word 5 under OS 9 you can choose the order of items and degree of
abbreviation, and that is then reflected in Word.

JO, painfully migrating from Word 5

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Daiya Mitchell - 28 Apr 2006 19:37 GMT

Hi JO:

One way:

Skip the Insert | Date and Time entirely and use a macro to insert it. Once
you have created the macro, you can put it on a toolbar or assign a keyboard
shortcut to it to access it easily.

I assume you do NOT want the date to update. So here's the macro code you
would need.

Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="ddd d MMM yyyy", InsertAsField:= _
False

(That's technically all one line, so the underscore after the second equals
is telling Word that this is all one line--you might have to do some
creative pasting to prevent code showing up in red).

Directions for installing macro:
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/InstallMacro.html

See the second half of this page for how to make the macro easy to use:
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/PasteText.html

If you are using this format in a Field, like say a CreateDate or SaveDate
field, you can do that too. Simply create the Field, e.g.:
{ SAVEDATE \@ "ddd d MMM yyyy" }
And save it as an AutoText to access easily.

Hope that helps,
Daiya

> Can anyone tell me how get "Insert > Date and time" to give me "Fri 28
> Apr 2006"?
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> JO, painfully migrating from Word 5

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Clive Huggan - 29 Apr 2006 00:02 GMT

Hello J. O'K,

Good that you made that closing comment. Have I got news for you!

Three years ago, experiencing the same extreme anguish of going "cold
turkey" from Word 5.1a to Word 2001, I started some notes on the many
differences, as therapy (anger-control therapy ;-). Now the notes are a
dictionary-style Word document containing independent (mostly) articles. I
have been updating them ever since, and they now cover the more important
aspects of Word 2004. As a user of Word 5.1, you'll find the starting point
for much of the material is that version, although people unfamiliar with
that version would not particularly notice. Among other things, read all
the front-end narrative and then do a "Find" for 5.1 after you read the
intro. After that, use the table of contents as your navigation point (click
on the page numbers to be taken to the pages).

Titled "Bend Word to Your Will", the notes are available as a free download
from the Word MVPs' website
(http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html).

[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. It's important
to read the front end of the document so you can select some Word settings
that will allow you to use the document effectively.]

BTW, I cover dates in one of the appendixes.

A new (May) edition will be uploaded soon, but the changes in it are not
profound.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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