[Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com]

If you want the merged documents to show the date on which the merge was
executed (rather than the data on which the mail merge main document was
created from the template), you should use a { DATE } field in the template.
Or possibly a { PRINTDATE } or { SAVEDATE } field as appropriate. If you
use the { DATE } field, you may want to unlink it after executing the merge,
so that it does not update.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"NaBellFL" wrote in message
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I have created a letter merge form and saved it as a .dot. For the date at
the top of the form letter and in the header for the second page I have
inserted a Create Date field. When the merge is performed the new
document
is supposed to have the current date at the time of the merge and not
automatically update.

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work. When I merge the document the
date that I inserted the Create Date field is inserted into my new
document
as text.

There must be a way to have the current date come up in my new .doc when
it
is merged from the .dot.

Any help would be appreciated.