Girard Aquino wrote: > Manfred J. Krause wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 06:02, Girard Aquino wrote: >> >> >>> just a quick one... is there a way to set writer to always insert dates >>> (or other fields for that matter) in a specific format. Using >>> Insert>Fields>Date always chooses 11/13/08 as the format, and one would >>> have to change it if they don't want that formatting. Can this be done >>> other than through Insert>Fields>Other? >>> >>> >> My ultimate solution has been to install an extension -> >> >> DateTime2 >> by re-Solutions Software Test >> >> >> So I can insert (e.g. with a shortcut key) >> 2008-11-14 11:31 >> instead of >> 11/14/08 11:31:59 AM >> >> Manfred >> >> >> > took some time for me to realize that tb wasn't downloading my hotmail > due to the new hotmail website. (now i have 18xx messages to download > from the mailing lists). > > thanks for the replies and i will check them out and post back. > > i would like to be able to set OOo to insert dates as November 21, 2008 > by default on my documents though... > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > this doesn't work for me nor did the suggestion of creating a macro. the latter doing everything except turning the date format into November 21, 2008.
i'll settle with having to insert>fields>other and modifying it from there. thanks. _________________________________________________________________
