WD97: Month, Day Transposed After Updating Form Field

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you update a text form field that contains a date, the month and day will be transposed. For example, if the text form field is specified as date, and the date format is M/d/yyyy, and you type 1/8 for January 8, the field result is 8/1 when the field is updated.

This problem occurs when all of the following are true:

• The text form field type is set for Date.
  
  -and-



• The text form field date format begins with a month, such as M/d/yyyy.
  
  -and-



• You type the date without including the year. For example, you type 1/8.

WORKAROUND

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   Sub FormatDate_OnExit()
      Dim fField As FormField
      Dim dDateFormat As String
      ' Specify the date format.
      sDateFormat = "M/d/yyyy"
      ' In the following command, change "Text1"
      ' to match your formfield bookmark name.
      Set fField = ActiveDocument.FormFields("Text1")
      If IsDate(fField.Result) Then
         fField.Result = Format$(CDate(fField.Result), sDateFormat)
      End If
   End Sub 

1. On the Tools menu, click Unprotect Document.



2. Double-click the form field.



3. In the Type box, click Regular Text.



4. In the On Exit box, click the macro you created.



5. Click OK.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Word does not contain true date fields; Word contains text with date formatting.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

REFERENCES

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

Additional query words: vb vba vbe

Keywords : kbmacro kbprg kbdta kbdtacode kbfield kbform
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb