It will not. If he opened the original documents in Word 97, they would
still be date fields.
Perhaps he somehow triggered the display of field codes. Alt-F9 toggles
this.
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"MAB" wrote in message
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A friend of mine has this issue he asked me about, but I have no
explanation.
He says that he has a bunch of saved Word files that have manually input
dates at the top of the document (greeting line). He says that ever since
his company upgraded their Office 2003 to SP2, the date fields in those
saved
documents are now date fields. How can Word change input date data to
date
fields?
Does anyone have any idea how this is or offer some kind of logical
explanation?
Thanks in advance.