How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current date of
the merge, then does not update after that point? In other words, after the
merge is complete, the resulting document's date field should be
automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the user to unlink the field
with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are several of these date codes throughout
the form file, inlcuding headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk
that the user forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The new
document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, inlcuding
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

Thanks so much, Graham. You dah man!
Is there a similar function for the document id code? To insert the new name
and path of the resulting merged document?

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The new
document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, inlcuding
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

You can insert the field for this but realize it won't give a real name
until after the document is saved and the field is updated.
--

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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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Thanks so much, Graham. You dah man!
Is there a similar function for the document id code? To insert the new
name and path of the resulting merged document?

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The new
document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, inlcuding
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

By just inserting the path/filename merge code?

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
You can insert the field for this but realize it won't give a real name
until after the document is saved and the field is updated.
--

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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
ink.net...
Thanks so much, Graham. You dah man!
Is there a similar function for the document id code? To insert the new
name and path of the resulting merged document?

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The new
document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, inlcuding
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

You would have to merge to a new document, save that document then insert
the field. As Charles has indicated the name doesn't exist until the
document is saved and it is not saved as part of the merge process.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
By just inserting the path/filename merge code?

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
You can insert the field for this but realize it won't give a real
name until after the document is saved and the field is updated.
--

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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
ink.net...
Thanks so much, Graham. You dah man!
Is there a similar function for the document id code? To insert the
new name and path of the resulting merged document?

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document.
The new document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach
the user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, inlcuding
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

It is a field on the header footer AutoText menu or available through Insert
Field.

You can put the field into your merged document but it will not show a
correct name and path until after the document is saved and the field is
updated. If in a header / footer it will generally be updated when you print
or do a print preview. If in the body, you'll need something that updates
your fields.

I had thought you could put it in the primary merge document before the
merge, but checked when I read Graham's post and was mistaken. Word converts
the field to text during the merge. (The primary way I use mail merge is to
merge to the screen for a single client. I then print and save the merged
document, with active fields. So putting it in the primary merge document
works for me. I realize that most people actually perform a merge for
multiple files.)

It should be relatively simple to put together a processing macro that (1)
performs the merge, (2) saves the result document, (3) inserts the field you
want (which will then be correct when inserted), and then saves the document
again. This could be put on a (floating) custom toolbar for your users to
perform the merge.

The following is the command to insert the field.
Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, _
Text:= "FILENAME \p ", _
PreserveFormatting:=False

Hope this helps,
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Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
nk.net...
By just inserting the path/filename merge code?

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
You can insert the field for this but realize it won't give a real name
until after the document is saved and the field is updated.
--

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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
ink.net...
Thanks so much, Graham. You dah man!
Is there a similar function for the document id code? To insert the new
name and path of the resulting merged document?

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The
new
document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, inlcuding
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

Graham,
I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting merged document
is displaying the date the original merge form was created...not the date
the original merge form is being merged. Does that make sense? In other
words, I changed the form document on Jan. 14 and coded the date to be
CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form is merged, the resulting date
displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you.
Karen


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The new
document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, inlcuding
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

Have your original merge form be a template. Create a new merge form from it
using FileNew for each merge.
--
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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
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Graham,
I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting merged
document is displaying the date the original merge form was created...not
the date the original merge form is being merged. Does that make sense? In
other words, I changed the form document on Jan. 14 and coded the date to
be CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form is merged, the resulting date
displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you.
Karen


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The new
document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, inlcuding
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

Thank you Charles, but...Since we already have tons of documents set up as
merge files, heavily coded with all kinds of data fields, if statements,
etc., how can we accomplish this date function without going your suggested
route? We would like to keep all these docs as merge forms rather than
changing them all over to templates.


"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
Have your original merge form be a template. Create a new merge form from
it using FileNew for each merge.
--
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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
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Graham,
I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting merged
document is displaying the date the original merge form was created...not
the date the original merge form is being merged. Does that make sense?
In other words, I changed the form document on Jan. 14 and coded the date
to be CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form is merged, the resulting date
displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you.
Karen


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The new
document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, inlcuding
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

Template and merge form are not mutually exclusive types. Save your merge
forms as templates, in an appropriate Workgroup templates folder. When you
want to do a merge, create a new document based on the template (File New)
and merge to it. Links to your database established in the template will be
maintained.
--
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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
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Thank you Charles, but...Since we already have tons of documents set up as
merge files, heavily coded with all kinds of data fields, if statements,
etc., how can we accomplish this date function without going your
suggested route? We would like to keep all these docs as merge forms
rather than changing them all over to templates.


"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
Have your original merge form be a template. Create a new merge form from
it using FileNew for each merge.
--
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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
link.net...
Graham,
I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting merged
document is displaying the date the original merge form was
created...not the date the original merge form is being merged. Does
that make sense? In other words, I changed the form document on Jan. 14
and coded the date to be CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form is
merged, the resulting date displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you.
Karen


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The
new
document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, inlcuding
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

The date in the createdate in the merge source document is irrelevant. If
you merge to a new document the date that document is created becomes the
createdate for that document. If the field shows the wrong date select all
(CTRL+A) then update (F9). That should fix it.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
Graham,
I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting merged
document is displaying the date the original merge form was
created...not the date the original merge form is being merged. Does
that make sense? In other words, I changed the form document on Jan.
14 and coded the date to be CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form is
merged, the resulting date displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing
wrong?
Thank you.
Karen


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The
new document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, including
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

Thank you so much for replying, Graham. Coincidentally, I was on your web
site checking it out exactly when your reply came :-) What a cool web site!
I love it! And I love that cute little thing that follows my pointer
around!

Anyway, once again, I tried...I insert this into the merge MAIN document:
{CREATEDATE \@ "MMMMd, yyyy" \* MERGEFORMAT}.

But sure enough, when I merge it, this is what I see:
August 24, 2000
(This is the date I originally created this merge source document).
(Ctrl-A), (F9) is changing nothing, no matter if I do it before and/or after
merging.
Please help me out of the twilight zone!!

Thanks again,
Karen

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
The date in the createdate in the merge source document is irrelevant. If
you merge to a new document the date that document is created becomes the
createdate for that document. If the field shows the wrong date select all
(CTRL+A) then update (F9). That should fix it.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
Graham,
I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting merged
document is displaying the date the original merge form was
created...not the date the original merge form is being merged. Does
that make sense? In other words, I changed the form document on Jan.
14 and coded the date to be CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form is
merged, the resulting date displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing
wrong?
Thank you.
Karen


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The
new document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, including
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

I believe that the merge changes the field to its results, so an F9 after
the merge wouldn't find a field to update.
--
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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Thank you so much for replying, Graham. Coincidentally, I was on your web
site checking it out exactly when your reply came :-) What a cool web
site! I love it! And I love that cute little thing that follows my
pointer around!

Anyway, once again, I tried...I insert this into the merge MAIN document:
{CREATEDATE \@ "MMMMd, yyyy" \* MERGEFORMAT}.

But sure enough, when I merge it, this is what I see:
August 24, 2000
(This is the date I originally created this merge source document).
(Ctrl-A), (F9) is changing nothing, no matter if I do it before and/or
after merging.
Please help me out of the twilight zone!!

Thanks again,
Karen

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
The date in the createdate in the merge source document is irrelevant. If
you merge to a new document the date that document is created becomes the
createdate for that document. If the field shows the wrong date select
all
(CTRL+A) then update (F9). That should fix it.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
Graham,
I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting merged
document is displaying the date the original merge form was
created...not the date the original merge form is being merged. Does
that make sense? In other words, I changed the form document on Jan.
14 and coded the date to be CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form is
merged, the resulting date displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing
wrong?
Thank you.
Karen


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The
new document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, including
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen

This is not going to work That's what comes from not testing the
suggestions before posting.

Change the field back to a DATE field, update it, then merge to a new
document
CTRL+A then CTRL+SHIFT+F9
will fix it.


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
Thank you so much for replying, Graham. Coincidentally, I was on your
web site checking it out exactly when your reply came :-) What a
cool web site! I love it! And I love that cute little thing that
follows my pointer around!

Anyway, once again, I tried...I insert this into the merge MAIN
document: {CREATEDATE \@ "MMMMd, yyyy" \* MERGEFORMAT}.

But sure enough, when I merge it, this is what I see:
August 24, 2000
(This is the date I originally created this merge source document).
(Ctrl-A), (F9) is changing nothing, no matter if I do it before
and/or after merging.
Please help me out of the twilight zone!!

Thanks again,
Karen

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
The date in the createdate in the merge source document is
irrelevant. If you merge to a new document the date that document is
created becomes the createdate for that document. If the field shows
the wrong date select all (CTRL+A) then update (F9). That should fix
it.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
Graham,
I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting merged
document is displaying the date the original merge form was
created...not the date the original merge form is being merged. Does
that make sense? In other words, I changed the form document on Jan.
14 and coded the date to be CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form is
merged, the resulting date displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing
wrong?
Thank you.
Karen


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document.
The new document will always show the date of the merge.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach
the user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, including
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen