Auto Complete for Dates Not Working

Question

I use Microsoft Office and Word 2007 and I.E 9 in Vista Home Premium.  After doing some “fixes” for other issues, I lost the feature of Auto Complete for dates.  I tried to restore to an earlier time and that did not fix it.  I also checked the AutoComplete in Internet Options and ran Malware. How can I restore the Auto Complete for dates?

Thanks,

Jerry

Answer 1

1. Language is a character property in Word. Here is how to tell which language has been applied to a selection in Word 2007: Click the Review tab, and then click Set Language. While the Language dialog box is open, clear the "Detect language automatically" option; this prevents Word from trying to guess the language at the insertion point based on what you type.
2. The macro would be used instead of AutoComplete. You would attach it to a keyboard shortcut and/or a button on your Quick Access Toolbar and run it as desired. For example, you can use this macro (suggested by Greg Maxey in the thread at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-word/insert-date-and-time-in-word/17bee601-80b6-4a52-92e2-65c720db1a91).

Sub DateLongStamp()

'Inserts current date

Selection.InsertDateTime _

DateTimeFormat:="dddd, MMMM d, yyyy", _

InsertAsField:=False

End Sub

Save the macro to the Normal template. For installation instructions, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

Answer 2

Hello Stefan

Thanks for the quick return.  Unfortunately your suggestion did not work for me.  What are your thoughts?

Jerry

Answer 3

In Word 2007, AutoComplete suggestions can only be turned on or off via a macro (and note that AutoComplete in that version applies to dates, not to AutoText/Building Block entries). Do the following: In Word 2007, press Alt+F11 to display the Visual Basic Editor. Press Ctrl+G to activate the Immediate window. Type

Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips = True

and press Enter. Close the Visual Basic Editor.

Answer 4

The best I can tell Auto Complete seems to work for text, but have not had an opportunity to really check that lately, so can't be sure.  Auto Correct does seem to work.  

Auto Complete for dates does not work at all.  This occurred after I made some corrections for trying to get Clip Art to work.  The corrections had me run some “fix it” and diagnostics fixes for Clip Art.  Before I made these corrections, Auto Complete for dates did work.

Jerry

Answer 5

What is the specific issue you are seeing? Does AutoComplete not work at all? Or is it "only" unpredictable?