RE: custom date format in PowerPoint?

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

Ah...sorry, I waded into this one mid-thread and missed that step. Well, my
macro route is the best I can come up with at this point--note that the
macro has to open the Word document via PowerPoint. Thanks. DB.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net]
> Sent: 04 December 2001 16:19
> To: TECHWR-L; Darren Barefoot
> Subject: RE: custom date format in PowerPoint?
> 
> 
> 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:
> 

> 

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