I believe that the merge changes the field to its results, so an F9 after
the merge wouldn't find a field to update.
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
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Thank you so much for replying, Graham. Coincidentally, I was on your web
site checking it out exactly when your reply came :-) What a cool web
site! I love it! And I love that cute little thing that follows my
pointer around!
Anyway, once again, I tried...I insert this into the merge MAIN document:
{CREATEDATE \@ "MMMMd, yyyy" \* MERGEFORMAT}.
But sure enough, when I merge it, this is what I see:
August 24, 2000
(This is the date I originally created this merge source document).
(Ctrl-A), (F9) is changing nothing, no matter if I do it before and/or
after merging.
Please help me out of the twilight zone!!
Thanks again,
Karen
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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The date in the createdate in the merge source document is irrelevant. If
you merge to a new document the date that document is created becomes the
createdate for that document. If the field shows the wrong date select
all
(CTRL+A) then update (F9). That should fix it.
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Karen Hart wrote:
Graham,
I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting merged
document is displaying the date the original merge form was
created...not the date the original merge form is being merged. Does
that make sense? In other words, I changed the form document on Jan.
14 and coded the date to be CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form is
merged, the resulting date displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing
wrong?
Thank you.
Karen
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The
new document will always show the date of the merge.
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, including
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.
Thank you in advance.
Karen