Press Alt+F9 to reveal the field code, which will be DATE or TIME. Change
this to CREATEDATE and F9 to update.

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"bpines" wrote in message
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When I open a saved document it automatically updates the date field to
the
current date. How can I stop this so it opens with the original date?