It did help, as usual.  Thank you very much.

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Brian Barker <[email protected]>wrote:

> At 15:43 18/01/2009 +0800, Bashar Maree wrote:
>
>> I use insert>fields>Date to insert a date stamp in my documents which
>> comes in the form dd/mm/yy
>> Is it possible to change that format into another form, for example Fri
>> 4th Jan 2010
>>
>
> Put the cursor just *in front of* the inserted field and go to right-click
> | Fields... (or Edit | Fields...).  Select the required format there.  I
> don't see any way to get your "th", but "Fri 4 Jan 2010" would be available.
>  (Er, except that 4 January 2010 will be a Monday!)
>
> Before you ask, I don't know of any way that you can set your format for
> date fields as a default.  But if you have a number of instances in one
> document, you can step between them using the arrow buttons in the Edit
> Fields dialogue.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
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