Date-Time Stamp for each journal entry to work activities

Greetings, I need to date-time start each journal entry for work purposes. I need to use the same word doc ,and each day, date-time stamp before journaling to describe the work that I am doing that d...

Charles_Kenyon

Bronze Contributor

Nov 05, 2023

Andrea_Fu

Hi Andrea,

As is pointed out by cwb3106 below, if you uncheck the Automatically Update in the dialog, you get ordinary, non-updating, text.

Otherwise, what you are inserting is a field, and no Word field will do what you want because they are intended to be dynamic. That is, the content changes depending on certain things.

See my page: Using Date Fields in Microsoft Word

You can use a macro to do this, though.

Take a look at my Date Stamp (Text) Shortcuts Add-In which may do what you need. It has macros for the following formats with keyboard shortcuts (and is free).

The template has installation and use instructions. It also has a QAT button for the fourth macro, the one with the date and time. These insert as text, rather than as a field so will not change automatically.

If you do not want to use it, you can still copy a macro from it for your own use.

Otherwise, if you have inserted a field by mistake, you can click in it and "unlink" it so that it is text and no longer a field. There are two shortcuts for that on the Mac: Cmd+6 or Cmd+Shift+F11. Dealing with Fields in Microsoft Word

Charles_Kenyon

Bronze Contributor

Nov 05, 2023

Charles_Kenyon

Here is the macro for that one, in case you want to enter it yourself.

Sub InsertDateT()
    '
    ' Inserts date, long form, European format with time MMMM d, yyyy HH:mm
    ' Keyboard Shortcut, Alt+Shift+D, T
    ' HansVogelar and Charles Ke5nyon
    '
    Selection.TypeText Format(Now, "dddd, d MMMM yyyy - H:mm am/pm")
End Sub

You can assign a keyboard shortcut or QAT icon to any macro.

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