Insert the Current Date and Time into your Document

Contributor Icon Contributed by davak Date Icon September 20, 2003  
Tag Icon Tagged: Microsoft Word

Easy ways of inserting the date and time into any word document


1. Go into the Insert menu
2. Select Date and Time
3. Select the format you wish
4. Press OK to insert

Shortcuts:
ALT-SHIFT-D – Inserts Current Date at Cursor
ALT-SHIFT-T – Inserts Current Time at Cursor

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  • I'm looking to find out if Word has a similar feature to the .txt files ".LOG." internal command. When this ".LOG." is on the first line of a text file (for instance 'myfile.txt'), every time you open it, it'll log the current date and time. Does anybody know if Word can do this?
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