When I enter a date in word of, for exammple "10 February 2010", I immediately get offered auto completion of "2010-02-10 press ENTER to insert", if I press enter (which is what I usually want to do to get the the next line), I get the date as


10 February 2010-02-10.
Oviously, not what I want. How do I stop this happening ?
It's been happening for years and i have never found a solution except to press anything except enter and then adjust.

One work around is

1. Record your Macro
2. then Insert tab > Date the way you want

Now, when you need a date, use the Macro

If it is NOT exactly the way you want, simply edit the Macro

For example, it could look like this:

Sub DateMyWay()
'
' DateMyWay Macro
'I want my Dates to show Day Month year
'
Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="d MMMM yyyy", InsertAsField:= _
False, DateLanguage:=wdEnglishUS, CalendarType:=wdCalendarWestern, _
InsertAsFullWidth:=False
End Sub