Create a future & past date in Word

[JT Klipfer]

If today's date is 20080401 (4/1/08), I would like to have a date
automatically inserted that is 10 years in the future, but 1 day prior:
20180331.

The following field codes work just great for almost every instance:
{={createdate \@ "yyyy"}+10 \# "0000"}{createdate \@ "MM"}{={createdate \@
"dd"}-01 \# "00"}

Problem is, yesterday (4/1/08), those fields yielded: 20180400 -- not a
real date. I know it will require combining the month & day portions of my
fields into a contiguous field to get the subtraction of 1 day correct.
Problem is, even when I try that I still end up with April 00th:
{={createdate \@ "MMdd"}-1 \# "0000"} --> 0400
{={createdate \@ "MMdd"}-1 \@ "MMdd"} --> 400

I would like to try and accomplish this without any programming or add-ins
to my system ... problems with network administrators. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks--JT

 

[Jay Freedman]

You should find what you need in macropod's post at
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wrd&Number=249902.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[JT Klipfer]

THanks; it took me a while playing around with it ... but I finally got it.--JT