Can't change European Date in Word document 3

[dallen43]

I have received a Word document from a European consultant.
There were no automatic dates in the document.

Whenever I work on a document, I always add a footer with the date (using insert date), page number and document name, if they are not already there.

When I did this, the date appeared in European format (dd/mm/yyyy). I right clicked on the field and selected Edit Field. It shows that the field name is "date" and the format is dd/mm/yyyy. I looked in the Field properties for the US format but couldn't find it. So I decided to go custom and manually entered "mm/dd/yyyy". When I did so, the date appears funny. I have done it multiple times and instead of getting 06/12/2008 I have gotten 07/12/2008, 08/12/2008, 09/12/2008 and 29/12/2008.

So, how do I change this European date to US date format?

Thanks,
Deb

 

[TonyJollans]

The format is case sensitive:

mm (lower case) means minutes
MM (upper case) means Month

Enjoy,
Tony

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[dallen43]

That worked great!

Thanks,
Deb

 

[SkipVought]

Tony, I didn't know that. Here, all along, I thought that Microsoft was consistent!

Anyhow, ==> * Thanx!

Skip,

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