Creating/Calculating Lapsed Time

[RD3587]

OK, I want to try this in Microsoft Word, but I have no idea as to
how... Here it goes...

I am trying to take a date, like 10-05-2006 and I want to know how many
months and days have gone by since then every time I open the
document... Is there a way of doing this?

 

[macropod]

Hi RD3587,

To see how to do this and 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
In particular, check out the topics 'Calculate the # Days Difference Between
Two Dates' and 'Calculate the # Years Months & Days Difference Between Two
Dates'.

Cheers

 

[PhilD]

I am trying to take a date, like 10-05-2006 and I want to know how many
months and days have gone by since then every time I open the
document... Is there a way of doing this?

When I do that kind of thing, I put the "reference" date in one cell,
"=TODAY()" in another cell, and a simple subtraction between the two
where I want the result. To look pretty, you can format the reference
and TODAY cells so that the text is invisible.

If the date cells are formatted as such, the result cell will will give
the number of elapsed days.

PhilD

 

[RD3587]

When I do that kind of thing, I put the "reference" date in one cell,
"=TODAY()" in another cell, and a simple subtraction between the two
where I want the result. To look pretty, you can format the reference
and TODAY cells so that the text is invisible.

If the date cells are formatted as such, the result cell will will give
the number of elapsed days.

PhilD

Well, I opened WORD and I don't even know where to begin... Can you
walk me through it step by step? I would really like to get this
accomplished, but it is above me at this point... Thanks.

 

[macropod]

Hi Phil,

That might work for Excel, but not for Word - which is what the OP is using.

Cheers