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Word allows you to create all sorts of forms, and even provides form fields that you can add to your documents. Exactly how you add form fields has been covered in past issues of WordTips.
You may want to define a form field to contain a calculation. For instance, you might want a particular form field to contain the sum or the product of two other fields. Let's say you have two fields in your document; one of them is named Principal and the other is named Interest. If you wanted to create another field that shows the result of the two fields when multiplied by each other, you can follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Text Form Field Options dialog box.
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This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: 
=Principal * Interest
Now, whenever the form fields are updated, the Result field will contain the result of your principal multiplied by your interest.
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2017-02-14 05:55:07
Naeemah
How can I apply this to calculate number of days form Date field?
for example each field got a date
the calculation field to count the days.
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