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to: DANNY DEEN
from: BETH FRIEDMAN
date: 1997-02-17 23:07:00
subject: RE: MACRO NEEDED - USE AUTOTE

 DD> Would you happen to know if there is any way to insert 
 DD> calculated dates, without using macros? Say I would 
 DD> like to create a document with two variable dates 
 DD> (=fields): "today" and "today+90 days" (e.g. this 
 DD> document is delivered at date "today" and expires at 
 DD> date "90 days from today").
 DD> The "today" part one is easy, but can the other one be 
 DD> done without a macro?
That'd be tricky.  The problem is, Word 6.0 (and 7.0) introduced a macro 
variable that can turn a date into a number, and then you can add numbers of 
days to that number, and turn it back into a useful date.
  
Unfortunately, the field codes don't have that date format, so you can't 
perform addition upon dates in a field code.  The best thing I can suggest is 
that you create a macro that treats "today" as a bookmark, and uses a field 
code to perform a macro that generates the "today+90 days" as a result of 
executing the macro.
--- Sirius 1.0ya
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* Origin: Beth's Point: Minneapolis, MN (1:282/26.5)

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