Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
create date & templates
I'm creating a template in Word 2003. In the footer, I want to insert create
date field. When I've done this before, each new template begins with a date of zero (00:00:00). When I save and name it to create a document, the current date is displayed. For some reason the template has the current date in it and does not say 00:00:00 as I would have expected. What am I doing wrong? -- Many thanks JD |
#2
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
create date & templates
Please ignore this request. I've just figured out what I did wrong. I should
have chosen 'save date' fiedl and not 'create date' field. -- Many thanks JD "Jackie D" wrote: I'm creating a template in Word 2003. In the footer, I want to insert create date field. When I've done this before, each new template begins with a date of zero (00:00:00). When I save and name it to create a document, the current date is displayed. For some reason the template has the current date in it and does not say 00:00:00 as I would have expected. What am I doing wrong? -- Many thanks JD |
#3
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
create date & templates
I've just figured out what I was doing wrong. I should have chosen 'save
date' not 'create date' field. -- Many thanks JD "Jackie D" wrote: I'm creating a template in Word 2003. In the footer, I want to insert create date field. When I've done this before, each new template begins with a date of zero (00:00:00). When I save and name it to create a document, the current date is displayed. For some reason the template has the current date in it and does not say 00:00:00 as I would have expected. What am I doing wrong? -- Many thanks JD |
#4
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
create date & templates
Hi Jackie
Jackie D wrote: I've just figured out what I was doing wrong. I should have chosen 'save date' not 'create date' field. BTW, if you want to _change_ this "00...", then you can use an IF-field which tests whether SAVEDATE shows this "00..." and inserts a normal DATE field, else it shows SAVEDATE. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
#5
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
create date & templates
The template will contain the date it was created; documents based on the
template will have the date they were created. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... I'm creating a template in Word 2003. In the footer, I want to insert create date field. When I've done this before, each new template begins with a date of zero (00:00:00). When I save and name it to create a document, the current date is displayed. For some reason the template has the current date in it and does not say 00:00:00 as I would have expected. What am I doing wrong? -- Many thanks JD |
#6
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
create date & templates
How will this help? You'll still have the date the template was saved (which
is very likely the same date on which it was created). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Please ignore this request. I've just figured out what I did wrong. I should have chosen 'save date' fiedl and not 'create date' field. -- Many thanks JD "Jackie D" wrote: I'm creating a template in Word 2003. In the footer, I want to insert create date field. When I've done this before, each new template begins with a date of zero (00:00:00). When I save and name it to create a document, the current date is displayed. For some reason the template has the current date in it and does not say 00:00:00 as I would have expected. What am I doing wrong? -- Many thanks JD |
#7
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
create date & templates
Well, you can have as many different date fields in a document or template
as you like, and of course those statistics are also available from File | Properties. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message news When I create the template with savedate it logs a date of 00:00:00. Then subsequent documents have the current date. Perhaps it's just me but I like my templates to have no date recorded. The template using 'createdate', however, does have the current date and that never changes. Pretty useless, I think, when you want to keep track of the date a document was modified. -- Many thanks JD "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The template will contain the date it was created; documents based on the template will have the date they were created. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... I'm creating a template in Word 2003. In the footer, I want to insert create date field. When I've done this before, each new template begins with a date of zero (00:00:00). When I save and name it to create a document, the current date is displayed. For some reason the template has the current date in it and does not say 00:00:00 as I would have expected. What am I doing wrong? -- Many thanks JD |
Reply |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
create date in mail merge documents in Word 2000 | Mailmerge | |||
Mail Merge document and Date field | Mailmerge | |||
Create Tab in templates dialogue box | Microsoft Word Help | |||
keyboard shortcut for create date & time | Microsoft Word Help | |||
Create a line with date when saved | Microsoft Word Help |