On 04/07/2008 05:56 PM, Joe Hopkins wrote: > How can I get Writer to automatiically insert the date into my > documents with the desired format. I want the date to be inserted as > "January 1, 2008" instead of "1/1/2008". No matter what I try, the > date format that is automatically inserted is the "1/1/2008" format. > Can I change some option to accomplish this? Thanks... Joe > >
Yes. Insert|Fields|Other|Document|Date|Date (not Date (fixed))|Format Then select December 31, 1999 and click the "Insert" button. That will use your format and automatically update the date. If you want a fixed date in that format, then select "Date (fixed)" instead. >From there on out, that _document_ will have that date format in _that_ field - even if you open on another system. What I don't know how to do is to set that date format as the default. It was discussed on the list sometime back, but I can't recall if anyone ever figured it out. -- You have been cc'd on this reply as you have posted to an open OOo mailing list. Please see: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for details and how to subscribe or view the archives so that you may see responses from other OOo users. Please *only* reply to [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
