ASK or FILLIN MERGE FIELDS

[Graham]

I have a merge document that I want a typist to be able to enter a
date in either a ASK or FILLIN field and then use that information
later in the document. For example, I want the typist to enter the
date as August 9, 2004 and have that used later with the format of
August 9, 2004 and 20040809 in two different places in the document.
The date is not always the current date. Is that possible?

Thanks,

G

 

[Peter Jamieson]

If you use

{ ASK mydate }

and

{ REF mydate \@"MMMM D, YYYY" }

and

{ REF mydate \@"YYYYMMDD" }

you will probably get what you need if the user always enters the date in a
format that Word recognises correctly, e.g. the exact text August 9, 2004 is
OK. But IMO that is a big "if" and ASK has no mechanism to verify user
input.