See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm

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"Tim T." Tim wrote in message
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I have a couple of saved documents that are important but the date the
document was created keeps changing to the current date when I open it.
Why
is this and how can I stop it from happening?