Thank you Charles, but...Since we already have tons of documents set up as
merge files, heavily coded with all kinds of data fields, if statements,
etc., how can we accomplish this date function without going your suggested
route? We would like to keep all these docs as merge forms rather than
changing them all over to templates.


"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
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Have your original merge form be a template. Create a new merge form from
it using FileNew for each merge.
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
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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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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, inlcuding
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