Want to change the date field

[cyberdude]

Hi,

I inserted a date field by choosing Insert -> Date and time, and the
"update automatically" option.
The date appears as 12 February 2008. I want the date to appear as
12th day of February, 2008. Can someone tell me how to modify the
field code to make it? Thanks.

Mike

 

[Greg Maxey]

You can do this with one fairly complex quote field or a pair of simplier
fields:

{ Date \@ "d" \* Ordinal } day of { Date \@ "MMMM, yyyy" }

See:
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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[macropod]

Hi cyberdude,

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
or
http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#Third_party
In particular, look at the item titled 'Insert A Date With Text Using A Formula Field'. You can probably get away with simply
copying & pasting either of the fields there - at most you might need to edit the field coding to use the document's CREATEDATE,
PRINTDATE or SAVEDATE values instead of the (current) DATE.

Cheers