[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The best sort of date field to insert in a template is CreateDate. This will
always reflect the creation date of the template in the template but will
update to the creation date of the document in each new document based on
the template. It will never update afterward. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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Hello Ken

I don't have any difficulty with modifying file location but it
doesn't seem to behave the way I expect it. I'll use your utility and
let you know the result.

More to the point, in spite of advices posted to others just a few
days ago, I've had no luck with establishing a date in the template
that updates to today's date. I know that there is such a thing
because after many false starts I created one 5 or 6 years ago.

Sp[ecifically, the template had a date, let's say 28 October, 1999,
and when I clicked on new and chose letters.dot it opened a document
that was already dated with today's date. How do you do that.

As a last resort I might be able to use True Image v8 to extract that
file from a year old image. I might just do that if all else fails.

Best wishes.

Colin



On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:44:07 -0700, Ken Puls
wrote:

Oops! Just realized that this is the Word group, not the Excel group.
Regardless, the instructions to change your template directory work, but
the add-in I referred to is an Excel add-in.

Cheers,

Ken Puls, CMA - Microsoft MVP (Excel)
www.excelguru.ca

wrote:
I have had to create a new template in 2003 after years of previous
word versions. Because I like to keep my own creations off the C:
partition I have created a templates folder in my data partition and
set the file locations to look there for templates.

It now seems that when I click on File.New it doesn't look at my new
folder. To find the template I have to go FileOpenDocs/Templates
and open the template that way. It's not as convenient.

Also I created a date but it doesn't update when I open the template.

Is there any help, please.

Many thanks.

Colin