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When Alastair prints a document he wants to automatically set the date in that document to the date of the following Wednesday. For example, if today is Thursday the 13th, Alastair would want to display Wednesday the 19th if the document is printed now or on any day up to and including the 19th itself. From next Thursday (20th) Alastair would want the printed date to be the 26th, and so on.
There is no reasonable or convenient way to do this using fields in a document. (I have seem some "pick a future date" field combinations, but they are truly gigantic and not for casual use.) A better solution is to use a macro to insert, at the insertion point, the date of whatever the next Wednesday happens to be. The following is an example that shows how simple such a macro can be:
Sub ForceWednesday()
Dim dMyDate As Date
dMyDate = Date
While WeekDay(dMyDate) <> 4
dMyDate = dMyDate + 1
Wend
Selection.TypeText Text:=Format(dMyDate, "mmmm d, yyyy")
End Sub
When you run the macro, it assigns the current date to the dMyDate variable. This variable is continually incremented until the weekday is 4 (a Wednesday). The date is then formatted and typed at the location of the insertion point.
The macro could be easily modified to always put the next Wednesday date in a specific place of the document. All you need to do is modify it so that it searches for, say, a bookmark and replaces the bookmark with the formatted date. You could even set up Word so that the macro is run during the BeforePrint event, which means it will be executed just before printing.
Tip #3849 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003 2007
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