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Sometimes little things make a big difference.  For example, adding the day of the week to your medical chronologies can assist your analysis of medical malpractice cases.  For example, you can determine whether there were treatment differences on weekdays versus weekends.  Knowing the day of the week for each date in your medical chronology gives you an advantage, that little edge, when analyzing cases.  Unfortunately, adding the day of the week for past dates in Microsoft Word has been a time-consuming manual task - until now, that is.

Did I mention that attorneys love the ability to view the day of the week in medical chronologies?  I usually create my medical chronologies using CaseMap, which has a feature that automatically adds the day of the week, like this:

Recently, though, I used Microsoft Word to make a small chronology about prescription refills.  I wanted to add the day of the week for past dates but discovered that's not possible.    I searched for a solution on the internet but couldn't find exactly what I needed.  So I created a shortcut that works in Word.  It automatically generates the first three letters of the day of the week when you enter a past, present, or future date.  Download the file with instructions for activating the shortcut on your computer.  You're on way to giving your analysis that little edge. 

Notes:
1) I want to thank Graham Mayor for publishing Paul Edstein's DateCalc file.  It didn't have the exact shortcut that I needed, but the file gave me information that helped me create this shortcut.

2) Sorry, but this shortcut doesn't work in WordPerfect or web-based word processors.

...Katy Jones