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Chapter 22 Creating Dynamic Documents with Fields and Forms
Inserting a Field into a Document
By far, the easiest way to put a field into a document is to use one of the built-in Word fea-
tures to do the dirty work for you. For example, if you choose Insert, Date and Time, and
then check the Update Automatically box, Word inserts a {Date} field into your document,
adding a formatting switch for the date format you choose (see Figure 22.1).
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NOTE
In this book, you’ll always see field codes as they appear onscreen, surrounded by curly
braces—something like this:
{Seq Figures \* mergeformat}
Field codes are not case-sensitive, so you may see them in ...