Reading date from table in Word without additional characters

Question

so I started with VBA yesterday and keep running into walls. In the long run, I\'m trying to create a Word template that checks if it\'s still up to date or if it\'s time for re

Answer 1

If the date is the only content in the cell you could use:

Dim Dt As Date
Dt = CDate(Replace(Split(ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("runningText").Range.Text, vbCr)(0), ".", "/"))