How do I get the year before the savedate of a document?

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OverdooZ - 22 Feb 2005 17:41 GMT

I have got this document that I have to print every year and I want to
automize it.

So, I am creating a template with all things that are nearly the same for
each year. This includes the year it was saved in the header (no problem
there, SaveDate \@YYYY does the trick) but I also need the year before that.
This is my problem, I cannot do any calculations on the SaveDate it seems or
if I can, I must be doing it all wrong.

Can somebody help me out?

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Jay Freedman - 22 Feb 2005 18:53 GMT

> I have got this document that I have to print every year and I want to
> automize it.
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>
> Can somebody help me out?

Try nesting the SaveDate field inside a formula field like this:
{ = {SaveDate \@YYYY} - 1 }

To do this, type the = before the SaveDate field and the - 1 after it, then
select the whole thing and press Ctrl+F9.

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overdoos - 23 Feb 2005 11:27 GMT

Thanks for trying to help me out, however it did not work because it gives me
a syntax error on the '{' that is before the savedate.

Maybe it will help a bit if I mention that I'm running a version of MS Word
2002 SP1 on Windows XP SP1

I'm thankful for every idea that might help get underway.

> > I have got this document that I have to print every year and I want to
> > automize it.
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> To do this, type the = before the SaveDate field and the - 1 after it, then
> select the whole thing and press Ctrl+F9.

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Jay Freedman - 23 Feb 2005 19:57 GMT

Both sets of braces in the field have to be field delimiters inserted with
Ctrl+F9 (or through the Insert > Field dialog), not typed { } characters. I
assumed that you already had a working SaveDate field in place.

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> Thanks for trying to help me out, however it did not work because it
> gives me a syntax error on the '{' that is before the savedate.
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>> Jay Freedman
>> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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Doug Robbins - 24 Feb 2005 00:12 GMT

Was that { entered from the keyboard or by using Ctrl+F9. You must enter
all field delimiters by using Ctrl+F9.

If you do that, it will work, regardless of the version of Word or Windows.

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> Thanks for trying to help me out, however it did not work because it gives
> me
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>> then
>> select the whole thing and press Ctrl+F9.

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OverdooZ - 24 Feb 2005 16:56 GMT

Thank you both for the answer. I feel soooo stupid now ;)

I had indeed a working SaveDate, but had been messing with it to get the
previous year working and forgot to put it back to the 'pure' formatted
savedate before I tried your solution.

Anyway, it works like a charm now.

thanks

> Was that { entered from the keyboard or by using Ctrl+F9. You must enter
> all field delimiters by using Ctrl+F9.
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> >> then
> >> select the whole thing and press Ctrl+F9.

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