Margaret Stanley <stanley <at> wr14.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
>
> I have tried to insert a date in text documents and it comes in the
> American format viz 10/31/2005. I would like to change it to words,
> viz 31 Oct 2005 but I cannot understand the instructions in the help file.
Hope this helps. Click on the menu command Insert /Fields /Other, then click on
the "Document" tab. On the tab, in the first column ("Type") choose "Date", in
the next column ("Select") choose "Date" [i.e. not "Date (fixed)"] and in the
last column ("Format") choose "31 Dec 1999".
That gives you one digit for single digit days. If you want two digits (e.g.
04), select (in that column) "Additional formats" (you have to double click),
you get a new dialog, select 31 Dec 1999 and in the box at the bottom ("Format
Code") add another D alongside the existing D, click on the tick mark. On that
dialog, you can change the language, if you want, to English (UK). After
pressing OK, you will find the new format in the first dialog.
Choose Insert, then Close. I found a help item under "date fields;inserting"
Cheers.
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