WD: Cannot Format TIME or EDITTIME to Display Seconds

ID: Q193186

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.1a, 2.0, 2.0a, 2.0a-CD, 2.0b, 2.0c, 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
Microsoft Word for Windows NT, version 6.0
Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.1a

SUMMARY

There are two fields in Microsoft Word that return a time-related result.

EDITTIME

This field returns the number of minutes the current document has been open for editing since it was created.

TIME

This field returns the current time of day.

You cannot format the result of a field to include seconds or partial seconds using a Word date-time picture switch. The smallest unit of time that Word can return or display is minutes.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q49188
   TITLE     : EDITTIME Must Be in Minutes

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbdta wordnt kbfield winword ntword macword word6 word7 word95 
Version           : MACINTOSH:6.0,6.0.1,6.0.1a; WINDOWS:1.0,1.1,1.1a,2.0,2.0a,2.0a-CD,2.0b,2.0c,6.0,6.0a,6.0c,7.0,7.0a; WINNT:6.0
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS winnt
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: February 13, 1999