That's the thing about Date fields they update to the PC's system date.
You'll need to unlink them. The following macro will do that
Sub Macro1()
Dim oField As Field
For Each oField In ActiveDocument.Fields
If oField.Type = wdFieldDate Then
oField.Unlink
End If
Next oField
End Sub
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
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"Serena K." wrote in message
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Merged letter and made changes to merged letters. Final merged document
has
date in field code and atty wants to change it from Jan 5 to Jan 4. She
does
search and replace but the date automatically updates on print, even if we
change that setting.
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