Microsoft KB Archive/216543

= WD: How to Automate a Process Based on Number of Days Since Last Revision =

Article ID: 216543

Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007

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 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q216543



SUMMARY
To perform an action based on how many days it has been since the active document was last saved, using Visual Basic for Applications, you can subtract today's date from the last saved date and then compare that number to a predetermined age.



MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements. The following code example gets the last modified date of a document, subtracts it from the current date, and compares it to a user-defined value.

Sub CompareDates Dim aDocSaved Dim intNumDays On Error GoTo errHandler

'Assigns date and time document last saved to a variable. aDocSaved= ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties _ (wdPropertyTimeLastSaved)

'Compares variable to now then assigns the integer difference 'to another variable. intNumDays = CInt(Now - aDocSaved)

'Compares difference in days to 7 and branches based on result. If intNumDays > 7 Then MsgBox ("This file is overdue") Else MsgBox ("This file is still current") End If  errHandler: If Err <> 0 Then MsgBox ("Please save the active document.") End Sub

For more information about Date Calculations, from the Visual Basic Editor, click Contents and Index on the Help menu, click the Index tab in Visual Basic for Applications Help, type the following text

now function

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Now function" topic. If you are unable to find the information you need, ask the Office Assistant.

For more information about how to use the sample code in this article, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

Additional query words: date day deadline due expiration expire macro

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