Automatically Insert The Current Date Into Your Document In Word 2007
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Inserting the current date in Word is a snap and it requires a minimal amount of typing. When I write “insert the current date,” I’m referring to adding the current date to a sentence in your document. Instead of typing in the entire date, all you need to do is type four characters as I describe below.
To automatically insert the current date:
- Type the first four characters of the current month. For example, type nove for November.
- Microsoft Word displays the current month: November.
- Press ENTER and Word will insert the current month.
- Press SPACEBAR and Word will display the current date.
- Press ENTER to insert the entire date.
5 Comments
Don
December 17th, 2007
at 8:01am
I seemed to have turned off that function in my install of Word 2007. How do I reset? Thanks in advance.
Laverne
December 31st, 2007
at 7:40am
I have Office 2007 and I cannot get the current date to generate. When I type the first four (or 5 or 6…) letters of the current month, nothing happens. Can you help? I’d really appreciate it.
I see at this site that someone else had the same problem:
http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2007/11/19/automatically-insert-the-current-date-into-your-document-in-word-2007/ but a reply was not made.
Thanks.
Laverne
C McKillop
January 22nd, 2008
at 4:18am
How do you insert date but not on first page when you are working with WORD on the Vista system
Rachel
January 23rd, 2008
at 10:43am
At work, we all switched over to 2007. No one can get this feature to work. If you type Janu it will pull up January, then click enter to accept it, type a space bar and nothing. However if I type Janu (click enter to accept) then type “23,” it will pull up January 23, 2008. That really does me no good. I can remember the year it is, it is the date I want help with. Any suggestions?
Rhonda
April 29th, 2008
at 8:27am
In our office we all switched over to Word 2007. Only one of our computers works by automatically displaying the date as you begin typing it. The other computers will “ocassionally” work (maybe once out of every 20 times). We are manually inputting the entire date, as the computer will not even correct the month as the instrucitons indicate it should. We have tried everything. This worked great in the precivious Word versions and very frustrating as it is. Is there a fix? Any suggestions?