AutoComplete Date - Setup Question

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Jim

I have Word 2003, SP2. With the previous version, if I typed four letters
of a date (such as Febr) and pressed enter, the month was entered. If I
then added a space and clicked enter, the day and year were added to the
document. With Word 2003, the month autocompletes, but the rest of the date
won't apply. I have the "show autocomplete suggestions" box checked under
AutoText. What steps are needed to set up this Word version to perform like
the last?

Thanks,
Jim
 
Jim,

All you say is true and discussed several times in these NGs. The
AutoComplete date feature is fickle. Sometimes it works and at other
times
it doesn't. I have given up on it and use a DateStamp macro that I
assigned a
keystroke shortcut.


Sub DateStamp()
' Inserts current date
Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="MMMM dd, yyyy",
InsertAsField:=False
End Sub


See: http://www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com/installing_macro.htm for help
installing macros.
 
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