I don't have a clue about ASK fields.

If you are putting the date on the first page (not the header), a StyleRef
field would carry the information and would presumably be simpler than ASK
fields.

However, I suspect with both ASK and StyleRef you run into the problem that
the header and the footer cannot talk to each other. They are both designed
to carry information from the main text, but not from each other. You might
test it with StyleRef, just in case it behaves differently. Why do you need
the date in the header, anyhow?

Where is this date coming from? What does it signify? If it matches one of
Word's predefined fields--for instance "date doc was created" "date doc was
last saved" "date doc was last printed"--using one of those will be by far
be the easiest way, and will let you put the date in the header.

Previously you said you needed the date in the footer of page 2 and forward.
Now you are saying you need it in Section 2. Which is correct? If you have
a section break between page 1 and page 2 just because you need a different
footer on page 2 than on page 1, that isn't necessary. You could use
"different first page" header/footer instead.

Does your use of "Merge" in the subject line mean this is a merge document,
or were you thinking these types of fields were called merge fields?


On 9/9/05 3:05 AM, "jeanmac" wrote:

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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