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Default why do previously saved documents open with current date?

I have a couple of saved documents that are important but the date the
document was created keeps changing to the current date when I open it. Why
is this and how can I stop it from happening?
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Tim T. wrote:
I have a couple of saved documents that are important but the date the
document was created keeps changing to the current date when I open
it. Why is this and how can I stop it from happening?


The dates are fields. Right-click one and select Toggle Field Codes, and
you'll something like {DATE \@ "M/d/yyyy"}. Change the word DATE to
CREATEDATE. Right-click and select Update Field to get the date the document
was created.

In future documents, wherever you want the date to always be the creation
date, use the Insert Field dialog and choose the CreateDate field, instead
of using the Insert Date dialog. If you're making a template, you can
still use CreateDate -- each new document based on the template will show
the document's creation date, not the template's date.

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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm

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I have a couple of saved documents that are important but the date the
document was created keeps changing to the current date when I open it.

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is this and how can I stop it from happening?


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