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Default Supressing automatic updating of date in Footer

I'm making grammatical and cosmetic fixes to a Word 2007 doc created by an
engineer. He inserted a date field in the Footer, and for the life of me, I
can't get the *&%$#$#@%$ thing to stop updating. I've tried editing the date
field, using one of the "Available Formats" offered by the "Date & Time"
button on the Design Ribbon.

Every time I close and save the document, or heaven forbid, try to save it
as a PDF, it cheerfully, helpfully updates to the full date ("June 10,
2009"). I just want it to say "June 2009".
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Chyron Corporation
5 Hub Drive
Melville, NY 11747
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Default Supressing automatic updating of date in Footer

Open the footer pane, right-click the date, and choose Toggle Field Code.
Edit the code to say

{ DATE \@ "MMMM yyyy" }

and press F9.

If you reopen the document in a different month or year, this will update to
show that current month and year. If you want it always to show the month
and year the document was created, change the code further to

{ CREATEDATE \@ "MMMM yyyy" }

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/DateFields.htm for more info.

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Lew Yedwab wrote:
I'm making grammatical and cosmetic fixes to a Word 2007 doc created
by an engineer. He inserted a date field in the Footer, and for the
life of me, I can't get the *&%$#$#@%$ thing to stop updating. I've
tried editing the date field, using one of the "Available Formats"
offered by the "Date & Time" button on the Design Ribbon.

Every time I close and save the document, or heaven forbid, try to
save it as a PDF, it cheerfully, helpfully updates to the full date
("June 10, 2009"). I just want it to say "June 2009".



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Default Supressing automatic updating of date in Footer

Does the date field show \@ "MMMM yyyy"?

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"Lew Yedwab" wrote in message
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I'm making grammatical and cosmetic fixes to a Word 2007 doc created by an
engineer. He inserted a date field in the Footer, and for the life of me,
I
can't get the *&%$#$#@%$ thing to stop updating. I've tried editing the
date
field, using one of the "Available Formats" offered by the "Date & Time"
button on the Design Ribbon.

Every time I close and save the document, or heaven forbid, try to save it
as a PDF, it cheerfully, helpfully updates to the full date ("June 10,
2009"). I just want it to say "June 2009".
--
Lew Yedwab
Technical Writer
Chyron Corporation
5 Hub Drive
Melville, NY 11747


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