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Hello Peter,
I'm sorry I don't understand your reference below { QUOTE "{ DATE }" }
Is this a merge field I put in the merge form? If so, how do I insert it?
Thank you,
Karen
"Peter Jamieson" wrote in message
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How about
{ QUOTE "{ DATE }" }
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Peter Jamieson
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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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.
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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:
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.
--
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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