insert current date in merge form (2003)

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Rick - 17 Feb 2008 01:11 GMT

have a microsoft word form that pulls from an access database.
I want to insert the current date every time i merge the form in the
following format:
25 day of February, 2008.

Can someone help?

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macropod - 17 Feb 2008 01:48 GMT

Hi Rick,

To create such a field:
. select the place in your mailmerge template where you want the date to appear;
. press Ctrl-F9 to create a pair of field braces (ie '{ }')
. fill in between the braces with 'DATE \@ "DD 'day of' MMMM YYYY"' so that you get '{DATE \@ "DD 'day of' MMMM YYYY"}'

You may find that using 'CREATEDATE' in the field will suit your needs better that 'DATE'.

Cheers

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> have a microsoft word form that pulls from an access database.
> I want to insert the current date every time i merge the form in the
> following format:
> 25 day of February, 2008.
>
> Can someone help?

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Rick - 18 Feb 2008 16:39 GMT

Could there be a quotation mark or something missing in what you sent?
when i put in the info it just printed the codes as text.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 18 Feb 2008 19:48 GMT

Did you use Ctrl+F9 to insert the field delimiters {}?

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