WORD MACRO: Search for date fields and replace result

Robin Huber · 9. September 2020

Hi

I'm working on a solution to search date fields in Word and replace the result. Replacing the result should be easy but how can I search for date fields?

Robin Huber

Just the "normal" DATE field that looks like this or something: { TIME \@"dd.MMM.yyyy"} but also other formats of this field if possible.

Yeah some of this fields are in the headers or footers.

Thank you very much!

CharlesKenyon IA

Yes.

So, any kind of Date field or just DATE fields?

Are any of these fields in textboxes or shapes or headers or footers?

Robin Huber

Hi Robin,

The simplest way is to toggle the display of field codes and then search for ^d DATE. If you are on a Windows computer you would toggle the display of the field code using the keyboard shortcut Alt+F9 (or, on some computers Fn+Alt+F9). Are you planning on doing
this with a macro? Your title would appear to request this.

Are your fields DATE fields or CREATEDATE or SAVEDATE or PRINTDATE? See my page on the different date fields in Word.

http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm

What is it you want to replace them with?

This forum is a user-to-user support forum. I am a fellow user.

I hope this information helps.

Please let me know if you have any more questions or require further help.

You can ask for more help by replying to this post (Reply button below).

Stay well

Hi Charles

Thank you for your answer!

Yes I want to do this with a macro. I want to replace all datefields with (for example) "hello". I have a macro that replaces all fields with "hello". But I want that only date fields get replaced.

Can you help me with this?

Robin Huber

Thank you very much! This works fine. I'll test it with my documents and give you another feedback.

Thank you!!

Best Regards,

CharlesKenyon IA

Hi Robin,

The simplest way is to toggle the display of field codes and then search for ^d DATE. If you are on a Windows computer you would toggle the display of the field code using the keyboard shortcut Alt+F9 (or, on some computers Fn+Alt+F9). Are you planning on doing
this with a macro? Your title would appear to request this.

Are your fields DATE fields or CREATEDATE or SAVEDATE or PRINTDATE? See my page on the different date fields in Word.

http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm

What is it you want to replace them with?

This forum is a user-to-user support forum. I am a fellow user.

I hope this information helps.

Please let me know if you have any more questions or require further help.

You can ask for more help by replying to this post (Reply button below).

Stay well

Hi,

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