Date Fixing

[HankO]

I know there are shortcuts in Excel to fix a date, but how
do you do it in the header of a business letter?

 

[Jezebel]

'Fix' means what in this context? You can use fields to insert dates into a
document including the header. Is that what you want?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Use the CREATEDATE field in your template.
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See <URL: http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm> for information on the
different kinds of datefields and how to format them.

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Take a look at: How to set up letterhead or some other document where you
want one header on the first page and a different header on other pages.
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/headersfooters.htm> This gives
step-by-step instructions.

You may want to download the letterhead system from:
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/download.htm>

This may not be the best way to set up letterhead, but it is a way that
works for me. It consists of modular components so that changes to a
letterhead are reflected in all form documents created from then on while
documents that were created earlier remain unchanged.

Also take a look at:
Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial <url:
http://addbalance.com/word/download/index.htm#LetterheadTextboxesAndStylesTutorial>

Template Basics
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm>

How to Create a Template - Part 2 - essential reading <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm>

Word "Forms"
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms> and

Word for Word Perfect Users
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm> if you are coming
from a WP environment (or even if you are not).

Letterhead Tips and Instructions
<URL: http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Letterhead.htm>

Finally, take a look at the letter templates that come with Word. While they
are no great shakes as letterhead, they do use styles and AutoText lists
very well. If you use the same style names that are used in those templates
in your own letterhead for the same parts of the document, you will have
better luck with using the built-in AutoText entries in Word.


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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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