I use Word a good deal for writing letters and have various templates for
this purpose. All of these have dates within them and, to ensure that they
give the correct date when a letter is created, the 'update automatically'
box is checked.

This is fine until it comes to re-printing saved letters created in the
past. Obviously when these are opened, the date updates again, thereby
showing today's date rather than the date on which the letter was written.

Is there a way around this? All I can think of is some sort of macro that
is used when the file is closed (or even saved) to remove the automatic
update?

Thanks.