Article ID: 184248
Article Last Modified on 10/3/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q184248
SYMPTOMS
When you open a PowerPoint file, all date fields that are set to update
automatically, will appear with the correct month, day, and year but the
day of the week will be incorrect. For example, if you are using this format
Day of week, Month day, year
and the date is this
Thursday, January 1, 1998
the day of the week in the field will be incremented by one day, resulting
in this:
CAUSE
This problem occurs if you originally created the file in either
PowerPoint 97 for Windows or PowerPoint 98 Macintosh Edition, inserted the date and time as a field, and then saved the file in PowerPoint 4.0 format.
WORKAROUND
If you save your PowerPoint presentation in PowerPoint 4.0 format, do not
select the Update Automatically option in the Date And Time dialog box. When you clear this option, the date and time will be inserted as normal text. To insert the field as normal text, follow these steps:
- On the Insert menu, click Date And Time.
- Click to clear the Update Automatically check box.
- Click OK.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
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