How do I have word enter a future date in a letter

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If today's date is January 5, 2005 on a mail merge document templet I am
working on, can someone tell me how I have Word enter a date of 6 months from
today? I know how to do it in Excel but can not figure out the exact
"formula" for word. Thanks!
 
I still can't work it out. I know nothing about macros. I actually am
usually very computer litereate and work with Excel and word all the time.
Over the past 10 years I have gotten really good at Excel formulas, etc. but
this has me stumped and I have never had a need to learn macros.

The templet I am working on is a word merge document. I can get the year to
change with this: {DATE\@"mmm D,} {=DATE\@"YYYY"}=1} this automatically
changes the date on my form to same date next year. But I need to get the
darn Word program change the date to 6 months from now instead.

Since I can count on my left hand how many times I have played with WORD
formulas I could use some step by step instructions & typed examples.

Thanks for your help.

Cathy in Florida
 
Short of embedding an Excel sheet in your Word doc, the easiest way to get
what you want is to use a macro such as Graham offers. You can download it
directly from his Web site, and see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for instructions on what to do
with it.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Fairhope, Alabama USA

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You should be able to do it, but use a CreateDate instead of Date. This is
more complex than you might imagine, but it can be done. See
http://addbalance.com/word/datefields2.htm for information on the different
kinds of ways to make a date calculation work. It includes links to pages
with fields and an explanation of different macros that can be used instead
of fields.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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