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Update Word Document Date Time Format

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Updated January 6, 2021
asked on December 31, 2020

I'm using "Update Word Document". I'm retrieving this date from Forms which is just a date field (no time). As you can see, the only Type option I have is Date Time:

This causes the following in my PDF output:

How can I get rid of the time? I only want the date.

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replied on January 6, 2021

Is it possibly set to display as date time on the Word document template? 

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replied on December 31, 2020

Maybe try setting it to Default or String and applying a date format to the source value via the token editor instead?

MM/dd/yyyy is what I usually use to include leading zeros on single-digit months, but

M/d/yyyy would give you more like your screenshot without the time component.

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replied on January 4, 2021

Setting the type to String worked beautifully. Thank you!

replied on January 6, 2021 • Show version history

Thanks, tried Default and String. My source value is already set to MM/dd/yyyy. It didn't work. (initially thought it worked, but I was looking at the saved LF pages by mistake and not the PDF output created by Update Word Document.)

Still looking for ideas on this issue.

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replied on January 6, 2021

Is it possibly set to display as date time on the Word document template? 

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replied on January 6, 2021 • Show version history

So I had originally look at that within the file and found nothing. Your suggestion today made me research deeper, and I found this article that allowed me to manually change the merge field and it worked! Thanks for sticking with me and making me search deeper.

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replied on January 6, 2021

No problem. Glad you got it sorted out!

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