Automatic Updating of Functions?

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mo
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Automatic Updating of Functions?

Post by mo »

Hello,

Is there a way to automatically update certain functions, such as "Date and Time"...say when opened, or closed, or printed?
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Bob Hansen
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Post by Bob Hansen »

You can already get time and date when printing. See the help section on customizing printing and use of header macros.

And you could make a macro to do Edit, Insert, Time and Date after positioning cursor. You could also make a macro to delete and replace these values for current updating. This could include a Close and/or Save command.

And the macros could be made into hot keys for easy execution.
Hope this was helpful.............good luck,
Bob
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Post by mo »

Thanks Bob, I've got a strange one here. I've been using a macro to insert the date in other documents, but this one is a form (To Do list, calendar, etc) I've constructed using html which I print from within IE, and will need to be done every day. As it has to do with medications and reminding someone with severe memory loss what day it is I know there is going to be the day that I forget to do the update and I wanted to avoid that by way of something that took it out of my hands once set up.

Oh, yes...and the date is no good as just a header, it's a #1 head under some other text.
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Mike Olds
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Post by mo »

Solution: Running CYGWIN set up a local web server and use an ssinclude.
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Mike Olds
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