Dear all Master here

Let me introduce my self, my name is cipta, I from indonesia.

I have problem with automatic update for date format such like



field code : Docproperty "date completed"\@ "dd-MMM-yy"\* mergeformat



become 24-oct-13[suppose: today].



So my problem is how create field code, if today+1
become 25-oct-13.


Great appreciate, if you can help me



Regards
Cipta

See Calculated Dates in Microsoft Word using Fields or vba

Because of the ideosyncracies of the calendar, this is not simple. For the 24th to the 25th is simple. But because months can have different numbers of days and adding 1 to December 31 can push you into a different year, you don't end up just changing the day field.

A field for this looks something like { QUOTE "{ SET " Delay" "1" }
{ SET "DaysInMonth" { IF { CreateDate \@ "MM" } <> 2
{ = ROUND(30.575*{ CreateDate \@ "MM" },0)-
ROUND(30.575*{ = { CreateDate \@ "MM" } -1 },0) }
{ IF { = MOD( { CreateDate \@"yy" } , 4 ) } > 0 "28" "29" } } }
{ SET "NextMonth" { IF { CreateDate \@ "MM" } = 12 "1/97"
"{ = { CreateDate \@ "MM"} + 1 }/97 } }
{ IF { = { REF "Delay" } + { CreateDate \@ "dd" } } <= {REF"DaysInMonth"}
{CreateDate \@ "MMMM { = { REF "Delay" } + { CreateDate \@ "dd" } }, yyyy"}{ QUOTE { NextMonth \@ "MMMM" }
{ = { REF "Delay" } + { CreateDate \@ "dd" } - { REF"DaysInMonth" } },
{ IF { CreateDate \@ "MM" } <> 12 { CreateDate \@ "yyyy" }
{ CreateDate \@ "{ = 1 + { CreateDate \@ "yyyy" } \# "xxxx" }" } } } }" }


Downright scary!


You can use vba instead. See the links on the page above to go to Paul Edstein's date calculation page if you want to try that route instead.

Hi charles

Great thanks for your response. It's hard enough to understand, but I will read out from the link for more try.


Thanks
Charles

Hi
Charles

thanks for your enlightenment at the link. for a simple solve I use a field code like this:
(if date 24-Sep-13)

{={Date \@ "dd"}+1\"00"}-{Date \@ "MMM-yy"}

and result will appear 25-Sep-13


Thanks
Charles

Just out of curiosity – is there no support for epoch dates in Word?

But try it if the date is 30-Sep-13. Then your result will appear 31-Sep-13!

The field I gave you was created by an Add-In that is no longer available. The document from Paul Edstein has all sorts of fields that you can copy and modify.

I had to Google that.

Epoch dates are a fixture of Unix, I believe. Word is a Microsoft program ported from DOS. I would be amazed if it does support such dating.

Final note for Chieps:

There are a number of Date fields in Word. One of those is the SaveDate field. In my example, I used the CreateDate field, which is what I use most. Using Date Fields in Microsoft Word.

Excel uses epoch dates, and (pause for quick 'Net search to check) so does .NET. I imagine that the o/s stores date/time as a number and uses an offset, too. Perhaps Word users aren't meant to be doing tricky date arithmetic? <rofl>