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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated April 1, 2019)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
If you desire, you can use fields to calculate an age. For instance, the field could calculate the number of years between some base date and today's date. The following compound field will do the trick:
{ = INT({ DATE \@ "yyyy" } + { DATE \@ "M" } / 12 + { DATE \@ "d" } / 365.25 - YYYYb - Mb / 12 - Db / 365.25) }
As those who are familiar with fields know, each of the braces in this sample represents a new field. In addition, you should replace the YYYYb, Mb, and Db placeholders with the year, month, and day of month for the base date. For instance, if your birthday were 21 June 1959, then you would replace YYYYb with 1959, replace Mb with 6, and Db with 21. When you then calculate the field (by selecting it and pressing F9), it is replaced with a number representing the number of years between the base date and today.
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2023-08-09 12:35:46
Claude Albertario
Hi,
Reviewing https://wordribbon.tips.net/T009541_Age_Calculation_with_Fields.html I am wondering how to place this age calc filed in a form with fillable fields, where the YYYYb, Mb, and Db placeholders change every time the form field get filled?
2016-06-25 16:54:47
v mehta
the below code for file 123.doc, with PFNAME and PLNAME being Barack Obama, gives me, 123BarackObama.doc
Public Sub UpdateKImartin()
Dim name As String
Dim source As String
Dim path As String
'extract the name from the bookmark
source = ActiveDocument.FullName
name = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("PFNAME").Range.Text
name2 = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("PLNAME").Range.Text
'Save the doc with the new name
ActiveDocument.SaveAs _
Left(ActiveDocument.FullName, Len(ActiveDocument.FullName) - 4) & _
name2 & "_" & name & Right(ActiveDocument.FullName, 4)
ActiveDocument.Close wdSaveChanges
Kill source
End Sub
I want BarackObama123.doc. how do i achieve this ?
2014-08-11 18:25:01
novice
thanks, it was great if you could upload a document of this form
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