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Subject:RE: custom date format in PowerPoint? From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:19:05 -0500
Darren,
Thanks, but that gets me back to the original quandary, which is that PowerPoint doesn't offer the date format we're looking for as an option.
I just tried creating in Word and then Pasting Special in PowerPoint. I did it as a link, hoping it would update, but no such luck. (I saved, closed, and reopened the Word doc on a different date--changed my system calendar--and the Word doc updated. Then I reopened the PPT, but it still had the previous date.)
So, still no luck.
Dick
Darren Barefoot wrote:
>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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