Hello Alex, Here’s how to manage date fields in templates in Pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose Date & Time. Press Return (by default, Pages takes the Date and Time format from the Full definition in System Preferences, Language & Region pane). However, you can change the date and time format as follows: Go to the last item then press left arrow to highlight the date and time. Bring the mouse and do VO-Shift-Space. You’ll hear the current date followed by “Pop up button”. Click this button to get a menu giving various forms of the date. Use VO-w to spell out each one and select the one you prefer by pressing Return. The Choose Date Format pop up window opens where you can change the date and time format as well as its values. The unlabelled button to the right of Set to today is the Calendar button. Tip: you can label this button using VO-Slash. In any case, click the Set to today button. Clicking the Calendar button allows you to set any date you like. Press Return when you’re done. So, when you open your template, you can get the menu for the date field and click the Set to today button and the format will be that which you selected for your template.
Cheers, Anne > On 1 Aug 2015, at 04:01, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi list, > As promised, I'm back with another Pages question. I'm finally converting my > bill and service report templates from RTF to actual Pages templates, as > it'll be easier to fill them out this way. One thing I'd love to do is to > have the current date inserted into a new document when I generate one from > the template. Better still, I'd like to control with parts of the date > appear. For example, the main "date" field would be the full date, whereas > another section would be only the month and the year. Are either of these > doable? I could make placeholders and type it in manually, but it seems like > Pages should be able to manage this for me. Thanks in advance. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
