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Stefan Blom[_3_] Stefan Blom[_3_] is offline
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Default stop automatic date updating in word & excel

Press Alt+F9 to reveal the field code. In place of the date you should see {
DATE }. Change DATE to CREATEDATE and then press F9 to update. Press Alt+F9 to
hide field codes again.

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Stefan Blom
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"SMB" wrote in message
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I do not always want the program to reset the date to the current day but
would rather keep the old date in the document