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How do I display a date in word merge documents that is 6 months in advance of the current (today's) date

I have a document in which I retrieve today's date using {MERGEFIELD "Todays Date"}. What I want to do is to display the date as six months in the future, i.e. 3/4/2014 displays as 3/10/2014 or 1/11/2014 displays as 1/5/2015 (Note: Australian date format, NOT US).

I also need the date to display as 3 October 2015 or 1 May 2015, i.e. dd/MMM/yyyy

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To see how to do this and just about everything else you might want to do with dates in Word, check out my Microsoft Word Date Calculation Tutorial, at:
http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/154368-Microsoft-Word-Date-Calculation-Tutorial
or:
http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#Third_party
In particular, look at the items titled 'Calculate a day, date, month and year, using n months delay' and 'Date and Time Calculations In A Mailmerge'. Do read the document's introductory material.
Cheers
Paul Edstein
(Fmr MS MVP - Word)

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