Use Insert > Field and then choose the appropriate DATE field you need, which allows you to make the modifications to the date that you need. Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified, Editor/TechTrax HELP THE ANIMALS...SPONSOR MY WALK! http://www.firstgiving.com/Dian_Chapman Free Tutorials: http://www.mousetrax.com/techtrax Learn VBA the easy way: http://www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gaynel Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:53 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Auto-dating in Word with Dashes, not dots or slashes (MS Word 2003) Hi there, I have a macro that auto formats every Word document that I have. In the older version of Word, when I auto-dated the document, the date had dashes. This newer version of Word does not show a format with dashes (-). I am doing this under Insert/Date & Time. I Is there a way to auto date a document with the dashes instead of the slashes or periods? Thanks Gaynel ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************