Suzanne -- thanks; that makes sense and I'll try it. I've heard of your
company before, too; you're famous!!

Meredith


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If it has today's date, then it does contain a DATE field. Press Alt+F9 to
display the field code and change DATE (or TIME) to CREATEDATE, then Alt+F9
to toggle back and F9 to update.

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"MeredithS" wrote in message
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I'm using 2003. In Word, if I pull up a .doc, it automatically has today's
date on it -- I haven't inserted a date field so this is strictly
automatic.
I haven't been able to find how to turn this off on the Auto- features.
Help!! I can't tell what the date was on the original document!