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Old 04-24-2017, 03:11 PM
Randree Randree is offline I cannot figure out how to add a date picker, among others, in MS Word 2016 on my mac Mac OS X I cannot figure out how to add a date picker, among others, in MS Word 2016 on my mac Office for Mac 2011
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I have searched through every post and forum but cannot figure out what I am doing wrong.

I am just trying to create a basic form that involves entry of phone numbers, dates, etc. After I select developer then options, I do not get the same choices that is brought up in every post. I do not have the option to select date picker. In fact, I have no control options. What am I doing incorrectly? Do I need to change the format or template?

I do not have the option to customize the ribbon. I also do not have the option to select design mode under the developer tab.



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What you're referring to is a date picker content control. So far, these can only be created on PCs and don't work on Macs for versions 2011 & earlier. What you have access to via your screenshots is formfields. Formfields are supported on all Mac & PC Word platforms, but were not designed to be used in conjunction with content controls; doing to can lead to unexpected behaviour.
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Thank you. So would it be possible to create a data field that calculates the number of days based on the start and end dates?

I basically want the figure out how to calculate a total based on the entries

number of days
number of pets
any special options or needs, etc

for example
If I had departure date: (12/21/2017) based on their entry
return date: (12/25/2017) based on their entry
total: 4 days (calculated based on their input in previous two fields)

Eventually I would add the other elements
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To see how to do this and just about everything else you might want to do with dates in Word, check out my Microsoft Word Date Calculation Tutorial:
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...-tutorial.html
In particular, look at the item titled Calculate the # Days Difference Between Two Dates. Do read the document's introductory material.
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