Specific formatting of the date

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In Word 2003 how do I format an automatic date code so the text appears in
the form of:

2nd day of August, 2005 ?

I have the date part, but how do I get it to display the st, nd, rd and th
suffix to the numerical day part?

Thanks
 
Wowbagger said:
In Word 2003 how do I format an automatic date code so the text
appears in the form of:

2nd day of August, 2005 ?

I have the date part, but how do I get it to display the st, nd, rd
and th suffix to the numerical day part?

Thanks
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You need two separate fields, whose codes look like this:

{ DATE \@"d" \*Ordinal } day of { DATE \@"MMMM, yyyy" }

The first field displays only the day of the month and applies the \*Ordinal
switch to get the suffix. The second field displays the month and year.

If you don't want this to update when the document is reopened, change DATE
to CREATEDATE in both places.
 
You'll have to do this in pieces. "2nd" and "August, 2005" will have to be
separate fields.

For "2nd" use { DATE \@ "d" \* Ordinal }

"August, 2005" use { DATE \@ "MMMM, YYYY" }

So the whole phrase would be:

{ DATE \@ "d" \* Ordinal } day of { DATE \@ "MMMM, YYYY" }

For more, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Thanks to both... I had the MMMM, YYYY figured out but couldn't find the
right combination of date rd th nd to extract a meaningful hit on Google.
 
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