Updating Date Field passed through a Variable string

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Kerri - 03 Apr 2007 21:47 GMT

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to insert a dynamic date (automatically update
Date Field, like in the headerfooter autotext) to the end of a
variable string. Is this possible?

The date formatting would be: (4/3/07)

This is an example of the string used...each Name is variable that is
combined here.
strFtrInfo = DocNum & "." & DocVer & " \ " & CNumMat & Date

This is how I insert it. I use StoryRanges and not selection to
insert into the doc.
pFooter.insertafter strFtrInfo

Then it inserts
52222.1 \ 12554 (4/3/07)

Thank you for your help.
Kerri

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 04 Apr 2007 08:19 GMT

If you want to insert a date in the form of a field that can be updated,
then you would have to insert an actual date field by using:

ActiveDocument.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty,
Text:="Date \@ " & Chr(34) & "M/d/yy" & Chr(34), PreserveFormatting:=False

If you just want to insert the current date in that format, then use

strFtrInfo = DocNum & "." & DocVer & " \ " & CNumMat & Format(Date,
"M/d/yy")

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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Kerri - 04 Apr 2007 18:14 GMT

Doug,

Thank you for responding. I was affraid of that. My other thought was
to make the date in the specific format as an autotext and pull it in
to the variable? I'll test them out.

Thank you for your time and help!
Kerri

On Apr 4, 12:19 am, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
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> If you want to insert a date in the form of a field that can be updated,
> then you would have to insert an actual date field by using:
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