You may also need to add a formatting switch to retain the same format -
Press ALT+F9 change { DATE } or { TIME \@ "d MMM yyyy" } to { CREATEDATE \@
"d MMM yyyy" } then F9 and ALT+F9 - and change the date in your letterhead
template so that future letters based on it show the correct dates. The
switch \@ "d MMM yyyy" may be different at your location.
See
http://www.gmayor.com/stop_automatic_date_update.htm
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Press Alt+F9 to toggle the field code display and edit the DATE field code
to read CREATEDATE. Then Alt+F9 to toggle back and F9 to update. The date
displayed will be the date the document was created, and it will not
change.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"AMYJO" wrote in message
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When I open old Word documents, the date gets automatically changed to
the
current date and I can't view the date that the document actually had. I
am
using MS Office 2007, but the old document was created in Word 2003. I
can
see the date that the file was last modified in the details of the file,
but
I cant guarantee that the date of the document is the same as the date
last
modified for the file.