I have yet another MS-Word question. Quite simple I would think, but extensive Googling hasn’t helped.
It’s the auto-date feature. You know, you start typing “March…” and Word fills in the date: “March 13, 2018.”
Except my Word doesn’t. I have to fill in the full date, with attendant wear and tear on my finger-tips, and the little grey cells, struggling to come up with the date.
Except sometimes it does work. I’m typing away, and the auto-fill happens, automagically!
I think there is some feature tied to my documents, because it rocks for some miffed but not others.
My first thought was that I kind of want to move to Canada, now, just so I can hear lawyers use quaint Commonwealth legal talk like “rocks for some miffed” (no doubt it refers to a wig or something).
My second thought was that dates may not be the worst of Piper’s autocorrect problems…
Before investigating that, do try out Alt plus Shift plus D (it’s D as in Date to make it easy to remember). Because if that does what you need, it’s always there in every copy of Word.
Alt-shift-D does insert then date, but it’s dynamic, not static. For my documents, I need the date to stay static, so months later if I pull up the e-version, it’s the original date, not the current date.
I found this MS Support article? Does it match your experience? If so, I’m not sure there’s a ‘real’ fix.
Completely irrelevant aside: I completely misparsed the thread title as NP arguing with himself and then giving up entirely. It took me a good 5 minutes to realize that he meant No as in number, not No as in, well, no.
You mean, insert a dynamic date, select it, cut it, and then paste-special as text? It might be faster to just type the date. If you already knew the date, that is.
