I have an old document that has a date field in it. At that time, I did not
lock the field. So when I open it now, it automatically updates the field
with today's date, and I want the document to show the original date in the
field. Is there any way to do this at this stage? Thank you.

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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"Samik" wrote in message
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I have an old document that has a date field in it. At that time, I did
not
lock the field. So when I open it now, it automatically updates the field
with today's date, and I want the document to show the original date in
the
field. Is there any way to do this at this stage? Thank you.