RE: custom date format in PowerPoint?

[Darren Barefoot <Darren -dot- Barefoot -at- capeclear -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com] 
> Sent: 04 December 2001 15:58
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: custom date format in PowerPoint?
> 
> 
> 
> > 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?
> 

I was hoping that when you spawned PowerPoint, it would open all inserted
objects...no such luck. I just tested my solution and it doesn't work.
Though, if you were really fancy, you could write a macro that, when that
PowerPoint document was launched, automagically opened and closed the
associated Word document to update the date field. That might be overkill,
though.

Ah-hah! Forget all that macro stuff. I (believe it or not) looked in the
help and found the following:

**Add date and time or slide number anywhere on a slide**

1. On the slide, position the insertion point in the placeholder or text box
that you want to add the date and time or slide number to.  
2. On the Insert menu, click either Slide Number or Date and Time. 

When you do this, there's a Update Automatically check box in the Date and
Time dialog box that opens. This will update every time the file is opened.
I believe that'll do it. Third time lucky maybe? Thanks. DB.

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