Then you have the containing calculation field wrong. I have used these methods and they work.




Alternative 1:

Use a copy of your document and use the macro on it. See what happens. It won't hurt.
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Alternative 2:

Otherwise, contact Greg directly and ask him what his fees are. I have used code that he has written for years with good results.

True. There must be some sort of simple error I am making. But I sure it is typed out correctly. Unless one just cannot type these things out, what I am doing should work. Now, one question here is that I notice the {} marks at the very beginning and end of the field are in bold, whereas the {} which I type when I put the two fields into the calculated field, are not in bold. Could this be a problem?



Excellent idea. I will try this on a copy of the document and see what happens. I would nonetheless very much like to get to the bottom of what is going wrong when I try to type those fields out myself.