What I want to do is enter the date at the beginning of the document. This
date is repeated in the footer of section two of the document and could be
over several pages. I want the date that I type in to be automatically
updated in the footer of section 2, I don't really want to use form fields
because it is the only instance and I don't want to have to protect the
document.

I have tried using an ASK field, but I can't get it to work. I've put the
ask field in the header and referenced the field in the document and the
footer to it. I found some help on that on a search, and I copied the
AutoNew macro associated with the help into the VBA module for the document
as instructed, but it doesn't work. When I save it as a template and open a
document based on it, the ASK field doesn't activate. I'm using Word XP.
Any ideas? I'm tearing my hair out now.

Thanks

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

Is the date related to the doc in any way? E.g., you could use a CreateDate
field in two places.

Is this date merged? Use the same merge field twice.

Did you try Method 3 here?
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm

If none of those work, a better description of the problem is probably
necessary.


On 9/8/05 6:07 AM, "jeanmac" wrote:

Hi
I've looked at all the posts on linking fields so that the information in
one displays in all, and that's great - I didn't know you could do that.
However, I need to take a date in the header of a template and display it in
the footer of the second and subsequent pages - it can't be an updating date
it has to remember the exact date. Any ideas?

Many thanks

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