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I think I (finally) worked it out.

In the document preamble, I now have:
\usepackage[australian]{babel}
\usepackage[dayofweek]{datetime}
\newdate{mydate}{26}{04}{2013}

In the actual document I use this:
This is one format of the date \ddmmyydate\displaydate{mydate} and this is another format ...

Dear all,

Sorry to trouble you again, but I am stuck with the following. In my documentation I frequently use a particular date, which is not "today's date". I may want to refer to this date in various formats. For example, in a table I would like it to show as "26/04/13" - a nice short format to ...

\documentclass{article}

% provides the \xspace macro that in most cases correctly adds a
% space after the macro when there should be one:
\usepackage{xspace}
% make @ a letter so we can use it in macro names:
\makeatletter
% define the custom command:
\newcommand*{\customer}{ACME Ltd\@ifnextchar ...

\newcommand*{\customer}{ACME Ltd.}

and use in your document \customer as TeX code.

Stefan
Hi Stefan,

Thank you for your response. I have added your code to the document preamble and wrote some text:

\customer written at the beginning, \customer , the middle and the end of a line \customer ...

Hi,

I am utterly new to LyX, coming from an MS-Word environment. I am looking to use variable in a document, but am not sure how to best do this.

I write a lot of documents in which the name of a particular client is often used. For example:

"We like to thank ACME Ltd. to provide us with the ...