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Old 03-05-2020, 08:19 AM
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I regularly create court orders in Word, which contain a sequence of dates, such as:



By +2 weeks from today, the claimant must [action].

By +4 weeks from today, the defendant must [action].


(1) I have a basic idea of how to use fields, e.g. { DATE \@ “d MMMM yyyy” } to insert today’s date, but how do I create a field which inserts a future date?

(2) My staff may take a week or 2 weeks to produce the order, so I also need to know how to insert a future date which is 2, 3, 4 etc weeks after another date which is 1 or 2 weeks from today?

Many thanks (and sorry if I have posted this in the wrong Word forum).
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Look in the Microsoft Word Date Calculation Tutorial 'Sticky' thread at the top of this forum...
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Look in the Microsoft Word Date Calculation Tutorial 'Sticky' thread at the top of this forum...
I had this question as well. I looked at the file, but I don't understand where I can set the delay variable:

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Setting the “Delay” variable in the fields allows for the required date to be many days, months and/or years ahead or behind (the latter is achieved by expressing the “Delay” variable as a negative number):
When I right click in a field, I only see Update Field (Edit Field is grayed out). I have allowed editing in the filed and allowed macros. I tried flipping on Developer view. Basic question I guess, but I didn't see how to do it.
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Did you read the tutorial's Introductory Notes? Accessing the field codes is all explained there!
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Whoops. Sorry. That's what I get for working too long.
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