Mike, if this is true:

"i will never have the problem of the 30th of February because i am always using the current date. "

Then your answer has already been given, and walking away in any sort of snit is counter productive...for YOU.

If you always using the current date, then use a field, as macropod has already suggested. He even provided links to his superb tutorials on using dates fields. These are about the best sources of using fields in Word you are going to find anywhere.

" i'll try and find somebody else to help me. "

You can do all the "trying" you like, but if you want to use fields, then you simply will not find anything better than what macropod has offered.

If you work though those you WILL greatly increase your knowledge and ability. So, you already have the answer, and you do not need to search elsewhere. If you wish to ignore such excellent sources of information...your loss.

That is unless you are actually unwilling to do any work. In which case....whatever.

"i know i can do this with form fields but thats not what i want to do."

Do you now? And how do you "know" that....hmmmmmm?

I will state flatly, based on much experience, that formfields are NOT the way to do what you seem to want to do.

Especially since you are seemingly illiterate about actually saying what you do want to do.

Help you? We are trying to help. If you had post even a tiny little bit of code trying to do what I suggested (the Select Case), I would have helped you correct any problems you had with it.

But you did nothing. If by "find somebody else to help me" you mean give you something (working code) on a silver platter...I am not your Help Desk.

If you had even tried a wee bit, any thing, I would have helped you make it work and/or improve it. As it is, with your responses (and lack thereof)....not a chance. You have thrown away help you could have received.