Usually the template contains a CreateDate field, which updates only upon
creation. If you're reusing documents, you may want a Date field, but you'd
do better to create new documents based on the template instead. Press
Alt+F9 to see which field code you have. If you don't see a field code, it's
because the field has been overwritten by plain text.

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"jena" wrote in message
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In the past, I had a fax coversheet that I used from a template on
Microsoft
Online. The date field on that sheet would automatically update to that
particular day's date everytime I used it. Evidently there was a setting
that allowed this to occur, so what was it? What do I manipulate to make
the
date field automatically update itself everyday?