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?
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Many thanks
JD

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.
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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

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

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
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The template will contain the date it was created; documents based on the
template will have the date they were created.

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"Jackie D" wrote in message
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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

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).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"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

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.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Jackie D" wrote in message
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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.
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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