In Word, the keyboard shortcut to insert a date field is Alt-Shift-D; to insert a time field it's Alt-Shift-T.



Note that both of these udate automatically, though not dynamically. You can convert them to plain text, so they won't update, by selecting them and pressing Ctrl-Shift-F9.

Don't know about Outlook.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Excellent Paul, that's what I was looking for. It's unfortunate that it doesn't insert text rather than a dynamic field, but I guess I'll have to get used to using the F9 function.

It also works throughout Outlook, but it's also unfortunate that it isn't consistent with Excel where the CNTL-; and CNTL-: insert the date/time (as text).

Thanks for your help!

Norm.