RE: custom date format in PowerPoint?

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> On the Insert menu, click Date and Time. Ensure that Date and Time
> is
> selected, and click Update Automatically. This will insert the
> current date in a footer. Not ideal, but a decent start.

I think the issue is not to create a date that auto updates, but one
in the specific format required. The one that most resembles the
required format has the day and month reversed...correct?

> As an alternative possible solution, you could create a Word
> document that
> only contains the date and time (as John describes), and instead of
> cutting
> and pasting it, inserting it as an object (Using the Object command
> on the
> Insert menu). That might work, but I'd have to wait until tomorrow
> to find out.

If you do it this way, doesn't Word require that the page with the
formula must be opened for it to roll over to the next date?


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John Posada, Senior Technical Writer
mailto:john -at- tdandw -dot- com, 732-259-2874

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