![]() You can’t change the name of a Publish Date control and have a ‘real’ Publish Date in the same document – they’ll both show the same date/time. The bounding box doesn’t appear in the printed document. The above example has a custom date/time format showing date and time down to the second.īounding Box: change the way the control looks in the document as it’s edited. Use the same date/time formatting options as for fields. Tag: a longer explanation of what the control is for.ĭate Format: select from the available options or make your own. ![]() Title: rename the control to any name you like. The mapped control dialog has many options, but the main ones are: If there’s no Developers tab, go to Customize Ribbon and select it from the right-hand column. Insert a Publish Date control, select it, then go to the Developers tab and choose Controls | Properties. This shortcut only works if you do NOT want to use ‘Publish Date’ itself in the document. Just rename the Publish Date control to any other name you like. It’s called ‘Publish Date’ but it can be used for any date and time purpose you want to repeat through the document. The obvious use for this is setting the actual Publish Date of the document, contract, agreement or whatever but it’s not limited to that. Change the Publish Date in one place and it’ll change in all the others automatically. Other places in the same document can also have the Publish Date document property. Type in a date or click on the pull-down to see a date selector. To setup first insert the Publish Date control, it appears blank. Unlike Create, Save or Print date fields/properties, Publish Date is set by the user, not by Word. This ‘Publish Date’ is saved with the document and stays the same until you change it manually. We’ll focus on a single example, Publish Date and how you can adapt it to other date related needs.Īt Insert | Document Property there’s a date option called Publish Date. We won’t deal with the details of mapped content control here. No need to jump to a ‘master’ bookmark or find a document property in File | Info, just change the control in the document itself. The big advantage is that you can change any appearance of the control and it’ll be updated in the other controls automatically. Mapped Content Controls are an alternative to other ‘repeating text’ options like Bookmarks. ![]() They let you set some text or date in a document which is automatically repeated any other place in the document that has the same control. Each Word document has various hidden data fields and some are called mapped content controls.
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