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I think you are in a minority of those who comment 
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Greg Maxey wrote:
For every lover of that infernal thing there is a hater ;-)
Graham Mayor wrote:
This is not going to work  That's what comes from not testing the
suggestions before posting.
Change the field back to a DATE field, update it, then merge to a
new document
CTRL+A then CTRL+SHIFT+F9
will fix it.
Karen Hart wrote:
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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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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
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