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Calculate age in Microsoft Word

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I am wanting to calculate age on a form document in word. I just need a easy to follow macro (I'm a newb to this).
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ShumsManaging Director/Excel VBA Developer
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I am not sure which form field you have, you'll need to do the work yourself. To help you get started, check below link:
How Can I Put Calculated Dates in Word?

Take a look and let me know what additional questions you have.
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Sorry I'm dense... so do I click Ctrl-F9 and name, within the brackets, {CalcAge} or {MACROBUTTON CalcAge}
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If you already have Data Field as above then you just run Macro CalcAge
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When I try to run the Macro I get an error "Run time error 5941 the requested member of the collection does not exist"
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Please upload your sample document.
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There is problem in your template. Let me make new one. Give me some time
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Kindly note you need to double click on DOB Field and change the date in Default Date then run macro

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