Press Alt+F9 to display the field code. Edit the DATE field to read
CREATEDATE. Alt+F9 again and F9 to update.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Guy Delaney" wrote in message
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When I inserted a date in my Word 2003 document, I put a check mark in
"Update automatically." Now I need to know when the document was created.
Is that information available somewhere in the document, and can I recover
that creation date?