At 12:48 PM 8/14/2006, you wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:48:56 -0500 From: Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] Automatic dates as in MS Office?? To: [email protected] Cc: Garth Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 X-Forwarded-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Forwarded-For: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Gmail-Received: 91c53f154261713f80b3274758afbd04413e7185 Original-recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Sunday 13 August 2006 10:11 pm, Garth Robertson wrote: > I am trying out the latest version of Writer, and am very impressed > - enough so that I want to switch. However, I use the feature in > Word that automatically inserts the present date when you type in a > day of the week, comma, space. Is there anything in Writer that > would allow me to do something similar? > > Garth F. Robertson > Senefelder Services Use Insert > Fields > Other. Under the Document tab, choose Date as Type, Date(fixed) as Select, and choose the format you want to use. In doing this, you can even include the day of the week as part of the Date field that is inserted. Dan
Thank you very much, Dan. Sorry to be so long in answering, but I had to switch over to fight off some other alligators for awhile.
True, your insert command works, but it is a long way from as convenient as what I am trying to replace. In fact, it would probably be faster to just type in the date every time than go through this routine. So, I reasoned that I should be able to Record a Macro to do it, and that proved very simple.
But, HOW does one call the macro when one wants to use it. I feel sure there must be a better and quicker way (shortcut?) than using menus to run a macro.
Can someone straighten me out here? ==== Garth F. Robertson 5124 Viceroy Drive NW Calgary, AB, Canada T3A 0V6 http://members.shaw.ca/garth.robertson/ http://members.shaw.ca/GFWR.Software/ http://members.shaw.ca/opera.scene/ http://members.shaw.ca/senefelder.services/
