[libreoffice-users] writer vs calc behaviour in LO 6.0.1.1

I'm using the version in the subject line on Linux Mint. In calc if I
insert the date using the insert menu and the date option I get a cell
with today's date, formatted comprehensibly. If I do the same thing in
Writer I can't, the option isn't there. I must (as far as I know)
choose field then date. That gives me text that looks like "Date
(fixed)" which is not what I want. I can do a print preview and see
that it will render as one might wish but that's not what I want. I
really want to be able to simply insert today's date as a character
string. 

I think the behaviour I'm seeing breaks wysiwyg.

Can anyone tell me a simple way to insert the data as characters rather
than a field?

TIA

Dave

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