Set date formats (i.e. 4th or 3rd)?

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luk_sr - 29 Mar 2006 23:32 GMT

The goal is to have the following end result with this merge field

FILLIN "First Interview date" \@ "dddd, MMMM d" \o

Result: Monday, March 6th

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 30 Mar 2006 04:56 GMT

I am not sure about doing it with a fill in field, but with a mergefield you
would use

{ MERGEFIELD FirstInterviewDate \@ "dddd MMMM" } { MERGEFIELD
FirstInterviewDate \@ "d" \* Ordinal }

If you really want the date to be entered from the keyboard, you may have to
use two FILLIN fields and that would annoy the hell out of me.

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> The goal is to have the following end result with this merge field
>
> FILLIN "First Interview date" \@ "dddd, MMMM d" \o
>
> Result: Monday, March 6th

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Charles Kenyon - 30 Mar 2006 05:52 GMT

See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the
different kinds of datefields and how to format them.

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> The goal is to have the following end result with this merge field
>
> FILLIN "First Interview date" \@ "dddd, MMMM d" \o
>
> Result: Monday, March 6th

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Graham Mayor - 30 Mar 2006 06:32 GMT

As Doug says, you cannot do this with a single field. If you can use an ASK
field instead of a fillin field you could format a REF field to produce the
output required - see http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm and
substitute REF bookmarkname for DATE in the example.

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> The goal is to have the following end result with this merge field
>
> FILLIN "First Interview date" \@ "dddd, MMMM d" \o
>
> Result: Monday, March 6th

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macropod - 30 Mar 2006 11:43 GMT

You can't do this with a single field, but it can be done with nested
fields, coded like:
{QUOTE{ASK MyDate "First Interview date" \o}{MyDate \@ "dddd, MMMM {MyDate
\@ d \*Ordinal}"}}

To see how to superscript the ordinals, plus how to do just about everything
else you might want to do with dates in Word, check out my Date Calc
'tutorial', at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=249902

Cheers

> The goal is to have the following end result with this merge field
>
> FILLIN "First Interview date" \@ "dddd, MMMM d" \o
>
> Result: Monday, March 6th

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