I have very important letters saved and need to make copies of them to take
to a work tribunal. When I attempt to copy them the date changes
automatically to the days date, not the original date. How do I get the
original date to stay on the letters? (Word 2003)

Press Alt+F9 to display the field code, which will probably be DATE (or
possibly TIME). Change this to CREATEDATE. Alt+F9 to toggle back and F9 to
update the field. It is generally a good idea to use a CreateDate field in
templates so that each document created based on the template will contain
its creation date.

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"Shirell Johnson" Shirell wrote in
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I have very important letters saved and need to make copies of them to
take
to a work tribunal. When I attempt to copy them the date changes
automatically to the days date, not the original date. How do I get the
original date to stay on the letters? (Word 2003)

You are using a DATE or TIME field rather than a CREATEDATE field. This
field should be put in the original template if possible (instead of
inserting using the keyboard shortcut or header/footer toolbar button).

In the document in question, press Alt-F9 to display field codes. Then
change the field to a CREATEDATE field, press F9 and then Alt-F9.

See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the
different kinds of datefields and how to format them.

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Shirell Johnson" Shirell wrote in
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I have very important letters saved and need to make copies of them to take
to a work tribunal. When I attempt to copy them the date changes
automatically to the days date, not the original date. How do I get the
original date to stay on the letters? (Word 2003)