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Suzanne S. Barnhill typed:
I think you've misunderstood what the OP asked. He wants the
CreateDate field to update to the current date automatically (once,
on creation of the document). This does not happen when you create a
document based on a template containing a CreateDate field. The field
is updated when you print, Print Preview, or manually update fields.
There is no need to cut/paste the field as plain text; you could
merely unlink it using Ctrl+Shift+F9, but this would defeat the
purpose if it had not yet been updated to the current date, as it
would then reflect the creation date of the template rather than the
document.
"Twayne" wrote in message
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john9210 typed:
I want to change my normal template so the header displays the new
document creation date without updating. That is, when I create a
new document, the date should be the date the document is created,
but does not get updated every time I open the document. When I use
the createdate field, the date displayed is the date the template
was created, not the new document!
See Suzanne's comments re making a new template; she has a valid
point. In the documents created from the template: You could use
createdate, then do a Cut/Paste Special to put the date back as
unformatted text. It won't change that way.
AFAIK there is no way to do what you want to do in the template. A
macro could do it, but I don't know how to write such a thing.
HTH,
Twayne
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No, I didn't misunderstand, but unlinking is a better & easier way to do it.
Good catch.
HTH,
Twayne
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through personal experience does not become a
part of the moral tissue.