Date Insert error - Word 2007

[cpawiz]

When I type the first few letters of the current month, Word inserts the
month but then when I press the space bar, Word does NOT insert the date and
the year, as described in "help." What is the problem and how do I fix this?

 

[Terry Farrell]

That's never been the case in the English (UK) version of Office. Which
language setting do you use?

In English (UK), typing '6 Sep' pops up the AutoComplete prompt and pressing
Enter completes the date to '6 September 2007' as expected. Pressing enter
again no longer inserts the ISO date format which always used to result in

6 September 2007-09-06

However, typing 2007 and pressing enter still produces the ISO date
correctly.

 

[Gary]

I have exactly the same problem and I am using the US version. I believe the
feature was working correctly a couple of months ago, but not the full date
does not appear after hitting the enter key after the month. This is a nice
feature and I would like to have it back. Thank you.

 

[cpawiz]

I am using the English (US) version. As Gary pointed out in his reply, it
was working correctly when I first installed Office 2007 but now it is no
longer working correctly.

 

[DaBaur]

Same issue here. We just installed Office 2007 Enterprise to our entire
company. No one can get the Auto insert date to work. If you type the first
four letters of the month, then press Enter, it completes the month, but
pressing the spacebar does not complete the date (day, year.) Is Microsoft
going to fix this issue?

 

[Terry Farrell]

It works fine in English (UK) versions (the first time it has worked
correctly in any version of Word). I would expect this to be fixed in the
first ServicePack due early next year. But you should call Microsoft and
report it as a bug to make sure that it is logged correctly (the more
reports a bug receives, the higher the priority given to a bug).

 

[Rafael H]

Just so you all know, I've posted the same issue, but I have Office 2003! It
worked fine a month ago and now it doesn't work and none of my settings have
changed. My coworkers have the same issue.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Have you installed any updates lately such as SP3?

Terry

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Regarding the problem in Word 2007... Here, I found that autocomplete of
dates *stopped* working correctly after applying SP1. If I start Word in
safe mode or use the /a switch, it works. Also, if I delete the Options key
in the registry, it works. However... for the latter, while it works the 1st
time I start Word after deleting the Options key, it's then broken again the
2nd and subsequent times I start Word.

 

[Diane]

I have found a work around for this. After you type the first few letters of
the month and hit enter, the month appears. Then hit space, backspace and
space again. Then the complete date will appear. Hit enter. It is a pain,
but a way around this until MS fixes this.
hth
Diane

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Herb,

For some reason it seems that Word 2007 may be losing track of the Regional settings for Date formats and a match to those choices
in the
Insert=>Date Time
default settings.

My usual default wasn't even appearing in that dialog (although some rather odd ones were) until I reset both the short and long
date format choices in the Windows control panel then restarted Word.

One thing we've found is that folks are at times trying to type in a future or paste date other than what is currently in the system
clock as shown by that dialog and Autocomplete also doesn't 'find' the right answer to insert.

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Regarding the problem in Word 2007... Here, I found that autocomplete of
dates *stopped* working correctly after applying SP1. If I start Word in
safe mode or use the /a switch, it works. Also, if I delete the Options key
in the registry, it works. However... for the latter, while it works the 1st
time I start Word after deleting the Options key, it's then broken again the
2nd and subsequent times I start Word.

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Herb Tyson MS MVP >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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