I thought I shall have to give this to the world. I can now get a static date just by pressing alt and D at the same time an even easier shortcut than my previous one (which didn’t work). I managed to create my shortcut key using a macro.
After much searching and much experimentation I eventually worked out how to do it. It turns out that it can be done as long as you’re willing to use macros. It was as a result of this that I discovered what I am going to term the “static date win of 2012”. You do of course have auto complete options, but if you have happily been using a shortcut for the last week one of the side-effects of Asperger’s syndrome is that you will prefer to sit in front of a computer for several hours trying to get back your shortcut rather than change to doing it the way that everyone else does it. There is however no shortcut to insert a static date into Word. There is another of the office programs that also has a similar shortcut. In Access it is a very simple thing apparently one presses the control button at the same time as pressing the ” ” button I believe.
It turns out it’s not as easy as you would think. I was going to find out how a date could be inserted into a Word document with a shortcut. I determined I was going to sort this out. The two of them are far enough apart as it is once my lack of attention to detail is thrown into the mix it only takes a little thing like today’s date being in place of the date the document was accessed to turn an academic directors face several shades darker red. Unfortunately in my current job the Harvard referencing system is the only one that is accepted. As he was looking through my work I’m not sure how many pitches his voice rose as he said “why is it showing today’s date?” Having trained as a lawyer I tend to put my references in the OSCOLA format. And of course because it is also completely true. Of course the way the work should be done is his way of doing the work I will say that here and now just in case he ever manages to find my blog. It was during a particularly heated meeting with a superior when I was trying to argue my point of view over how my work should be done against his point of view over how it should be done that I discovered this idiosyncrasy of word. Of course, what many of you will also know is that if you insert the date this way the next time you open the document the date will change to whatever day that is instead. This was what set me off on my course of trying to save even more time on the computer. I did not know this, and I was overjoyed at how much time I would save in the future not having to type the date every time. Many of you will know that this inserts the date into a document.
When I was trying to open my speech recognition program (the shortcut for which I have assigned as control, alt and D) I accidentally pressed shift, alt and D.
Recently though I’ve been very busy I have had very few hours free in the day and oh so much to do with them. I have always been in favour of raising my efficiency anyway but I have not necessarily been dedicated to the cause. This week I decided that I was going to raise my efficiency when using the computer. **If you think this was useful, do not hesitate to "mark it as an answer" to help those who are facing the same problem.How to assign a shortcut key combination to create a static date in Word 2010 rather than having to do it through the ribbon.
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