date formatting

[Mike]

I know that Access allows you to type a date in any
format and have it come out a unversal style (i.e. type
in "2-2-03" and have it auto correct to February 2,
2003).

Is there a way to do this in Word?

 

[Greg]

Mike,

Word will do this if you specifiy a date format in a
protected form field. As far as I know, there is no way
to coax Word to do this as an AutoCorrect feature in a
plain text document.

 

[Graham Mayor]

It would make things simpler if you were to insert the date using a
Createdate (or other date type) field. Alternatively place the date with a
macro:

Sub InsertUSFormatDate()
Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="MMMM d, yyyy",
InsertAsField:=False
End Sub

As Greg indicates, the only way to correct an inserted date is to use a date
form field.

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