pages custom date format

It would help if you said exactly what that format is that you are trying to do.

Date formats are set in:

System Preferences > Language & Text > Formats > Dates > Customize… > drag around or delete elements

Peter

If you are looking for the capability within Pages to insert a custom date field-code like the following, outside of a table, then I am not aware of how it can be done. I used LibreOffice 4.0 to produce the following image.

When this was exported as a .docx file into Pages v4.3 on Mountain Lion, the YYYY format was replaced by a Pages date field. A right-button selection of this date in Pages offers an Edit Date & Time... menu item that produces the following panel:

There is no YYYY format customization on this panel within Pages.

It is possible to write an AppleScript service that runs from your Pages > Services menu and scans your Pages document for a date to convert to a YYYY replacement format. You may not want that either.

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You said you where looking for updating year. You said nothing about not having month or day.

If you look where Peter told you you can create an option with just the year!

This is what it looks like in Pages when I Choose Date Format for the inserted Date and Time.

Unfortunately, on Pages v4.3 on Mountain Lion, there is no YYYY format in the drop down date format menu. I looked before I posted, and checked again ... not there.

Rick,

Peter and Fruhulda inspired a revisit to my earlier post and I now concur with them that an embedded year field is possible within a paragraph with matching style. It would require the following changes for effect.

In the System Language & Text preference, one can replace one of the existing (least used) date formats with strictly a year format. Subsequently, this year category does actually appear in the Edit Date & Time pop-up -- after double-clicking the inserted date & time field in the paragraph.

Fruhulda,

See my follow-up post below. Wanted to edit this response to reflect accuracy of Peter's original and your present post that pure year value can appear on Edit Date & Time pop-up with appropriate system preference changes.

You've got it! You have to change the date option in the system preferences first, then you can get it in the date and time feature in Pages.

Wish I'd have thought of that! 😉

Peter