Right-click the date and click "Toggle field codes". Add the word CREATE
before the word DATE inside the brackets. The DATE code tells Word to show
the date of your computer, which if correct, will always be today. The
field code CREATEDATE inserts a fixed date of when the document was created
and won't change. When done, right-click and select "Toggle field codes"
again to go back to the actual value for the code.

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"K.Local773" wrote in message
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I recently switched from Word 2000 to Word 2003. I noticed that documents
I
had originally saved (example: September 21, 2004 was date on letter) are
showing up as today (example: December 16, 2004) even though I had already
saved the letter, and just had to open it to re-print. I have already
cleared
the UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY box, however, some documents' date remains the
origination date, and some change to today's date. Any ideas?