[Electra]

When I open a Word document, the date modified changes to the current date
even though I did not modify the document. How do I get it to not change the
date unless I actually change the document?

[sergio]

If you dont want that to happend. I'm guessing that to insert a date
you are going to Insert Date and Time ... and then select the
format of the day you want. There is a little checkbox bottom right
that says "Update Automatically", you should have that unchecked.
Otherwise, It will automatically update the date every time you open
your document with the date of the computer.

Hope this helps you.

Sergio

[Graham Mayor]

The reason is that you have inserted a date field which shows the system
date. What you need to do is change those date fields for createdate
fields - ALT+F9 change {DATE \@ "d MMM yyyy"}or {TIME \@ "d MMM yyyy"} to
{CREATEDATE \@ "d MMM yyyy"} then F9 and ALT+F9 - and change the date in
your letterhead template so that future letters based on it show the correct
dates. The switches \@ "d MMM yyyy" may be different at your location.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Electra wrote:
When I open a Word document, the date modified changes to the current
date even though I did not modify the document. How do I get it to
not change the date unless I actually change the document?

[Mickey]

I guess I am not understanding. The date changes on th emodified column in
explorer whenever you open the file and do nothing to the file and then close
the file. Now a work around I do solmetimes is to make a change in the file
and when it asks if I want to save changes, I say no and the old date is
there.


"sergio" wrote:

If you dont want that to happend. I'm guessing that to insert a date
you are going to Insert Date and Time ... and then select the
format of the day you want. There is a little checkbox bottom right
that says "Update Automatically", you should have that unchecked.
Otherwise, It will automatically update the date every time you open
your document with the date of the computer.

Hope this helps you.

Sergio