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brucine Posted messages 25126 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -
Hello, I can't automatically insert the th onto my date, how can I do that?
Thanks in advance.

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    brucine Posted messages 25126 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 164
     
    Hello,

    This is an automatic correction: if I write 4th, "th" automatically comes in superscript, or of an automatic date field (in which case the situation is a bit more complex since I will also have to take into account st, nd, rd...)?
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    2. brucine Posted messages 25126 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 164 > WeeZIII
       
      It is assumed that Word is in English (File-Options-Language) and the trick is to do it in TWO parts:
      Insert-Quick Parts-Field.
      Scroll down to date, then click on field codes at the bottom.
      Remove "date" in the space at the top right and copy WITHOUT THE BRACKETS: DATE \@ dd \*ordinal Click OK
      Enter (or not) whatever you want next to it ("of" in the chosen example)
      Repeat the operation on the right with DATE \@ "MMMM yyyy"
      Then just click to the right, toggle field codes, to modify the syntax (for example MMM instead of MMMM...)

      PS: I almost forgot, if I remember correctly, the correct syntax in English is "June 24th 2021" and, for that matter, it takes not 2 but 3 parts: date with only the month, ordinal, date with only the year, remove the excess parameters (yyyy) for the first one, etc.
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    3. WeeZIII > brucine Posted messages 25126 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
       
      If I'm not mistaken, it's in American English that it's "June 24th 2021", so I succeeded, we'll see tomorrow if it works automatically ^^ so it handles all the suffixes like 'st, nd, etc...' well?
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    4. brucine Posted messages 25126 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 164 > WeeZIII
       
      I don't know, we either have to wait until July or create a field with CreateDate and a document created on an appropriate date, but that's what I understand, yes.

      If you're in the mood to go the extra mile, you can even add the day (4th field dddd followed by a comma).

      Upon checking, for the format, you are right, I learned English across the Atlantic, you can't change that, but it seems that the only universal format is: Thursday, the 24th of June,
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    5. WeeZIII > brucine Posted messages 25126 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
       
      Hello, I just checked my document and it’s perfect, the date has changed correctly ^^ thank you, have a nice day.
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  2. Panth33ra Posted messages 23185 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   Ambassador 2 357
     
    Hello,
    Could this help you... https://support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/office/insert-today's-date-into-a-word-document-fe7c08fe-7192-44a5-ac0a-88ccd51532ab

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    1. brucine Posted messages 25126 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 164
       
      Well no, the problem is not entering the date in English format, but the date suffix, which is not provided by default.
      If there is "cosmetically" only "th" to enter in the field, it's simple, but that's not the case every day of the month, you have to go through "homemade" fields or variables:
      https://superuser.com/questions/1274265/custom-date-format-in-microsoft-word-2016
      https://groups.google.com/g/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/c/gImi_-on03Y
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