Quick Microsoft Word Question

Antar Bolaeisk

Antar Bolaeisk

Antar Bolaeisk

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Is it possible to add an updating datestamp to a word document that is six months ahead of the current date?

ie

todays date: 07/01/09
Date to be displayed: 07/08/09
 
I want to do it for a self updating datestamp on a gift voucher so that when it's printed it requires very little interaction from the staff in order to print with all fields filled in correctly.

I think I can do it using excel by:

=today() in A1
=date(year(a1),month(a1+6),day(a1))

However, for some reason this is not working, I can add days onto todays date but the month and year won't change.

Why would I bother making something like this up, that would be extremely petty and a complete waste of time.

Edit: I'll just break it down into it's component parts and put it back together. It should work then.

Another Edit: It would seem I cannot specify the year or month using =date, no matter what I type the date returned is day/01/1905. I can only change the day for some reason.
 
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I think your original post made the impression you wanted to alter a file's datestamp, but your explanation says you want to make a 'date field' show a future date. Is that right?
 
Yep, that's right. Found a solution as detailed above using an excel sheet in the document but now my problem is actually specifying the date, also detailed above.
 
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