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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / May 2008Future Dates - Again!
Hello, I have this code which was given to me before however the date field I am trying to calculate from is formatted in our AS400 as 28th May 2008, so is a full date without day, but including ordinals. My question is this: how do I amend this code to allow for the format of the original field, in this case, the AS400 field would be placed in a document as { MERGEFIELD YYYCZ1 }. The code I have is below. Many thanks. Regards, Chris {QUOTE{SET Delay 14}{SET a{=INT((14-{MERGEFIELD DATEFIELD \@ M})/12)}}{SET b{={MERGEFIELD DATEFIELD \@ yyyy}+4800-a}}{SET c{={MERGEFIELD DATEFIELD \@ M}+12*a-3}}{SET d{MERGEFIELD DATEFIELD \@ d}}{SET jd{=d+INT((153*c+2)/5)+365*b+INT(b/4)-INT(b/100)+INT(b/400)-32045+Delay}}{SET e{=INT((4*(jd+32044)+3)/146097)}}{SET f{=jd+32044-INT(146097*e/4)}}{SET g{=INT((4*f+3)/1461)}}{SET h{=f-INT(1461*g/4)}}{SET i{=INT((5*h+2)/153)}}{SET dd{=h-INT((153*i+2)/5)+1}}{SET mm{=i+3-12*INT(i/10)}}{SET yy{=100*e+g-4800+INT(i/10)}}{=dd*10^6+mm*10^4+yy \# "00'-'00'-'0000"} \@ "dddd, d MMMM yyyy"} If { MERGEFIELD YYYCZ1 } produces a date with the ordinal, there is no way that you can use the calculated fields to produce a future date. Word fields do not allow extraction of parts of the field to enable you to lose the ordinal. Your best bet is to explore the possibility of exporting your data without the ordinal i.e. as 28/05/2008.  Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > yy{=100*e+g-4800+INT(i/10)}}{=dd*10^6+mm*10^4+yy \# "00'-'00'-'0000"} > \@ "dddd, d MMMM yyyy"} Thanks Graham. I did manage to get it to work however I had to change the SET DELAY to 42! I suspect that this is because, when it was left at 14, it is taking 14 days away from a proper, created date field, therefore making the result 28 days in the past rather than 14 days in the future. This is what one of our lead programmers thought. I have decided instead to use the word system date, which obviously works. I do have a question on that though: the first time I used this code, the future date used to come through on the finished merged documents as a mergefield, much like { DATE } does, and would change when you opened the document a few days later. This doesn't seem to be happening now, and the future date seems hard coded to the merged document. Has something changed within the code, or do newer versions of word handle this type of programming differently? Thanks. Regards, Chris > If { MERGEFIELD YYYCZ1 } produces a date with the ordinal, there is no way > that you can use the calculated fields to produce a future date. Word fields [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > yy{=100*e+g-4800+INT(i/10)}}{=dd*10^6+mm*10^4+yy \# "00'-'00'-'0000"} > > \@ "dddd, d MMMM yyyy"} I suspect the problem is simply a reluctance to automatically update a calculated field on a document that has been re-opened. However if you merge the document, the calculated field in the merged document is converted to text and so cannot be updated. Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Thanks Graham. I did manage to get it to work however I had to change > the SET DELAY to 42! I suspect that this is because, when it was left [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] >>> yy{=100*e+g-4800+INT(i/10)}}{=dd*10^6+mm*10^4+yy \# >>> "00'-'00'-'0000"} \@ "dddd, d MMMM yyyy"} Thanks Graham. It's far from a problem, because I never wanted the date to change anyway! Regards, Chris > I suspect the problem is simply a reluctance to automatically update a > calculated field on a document that has been re-opened. However if you merge [quoted text clipped - 61 lines] > >>> yy{=100*e+g-4800+INT(i/10)}}{=dd*10^6+mm*10^4+yy \# > >>> "00'-'00'-'0000"} \@ "dddd, d MMMM yyyy"} |
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