Every time I open a document it has the current date. I know that you can
turn this off but I don't know where. I believe it is auto update?

The keyboard shortcut for Insert Date, and the icon on the header/footer
toolbar insert an automatically updating date field, {DATE}, so if either of
those were used in creating the doc, you get date changes.

To fix old docs, select the field, toggle field codes on the right-click
menu (or hit alt-F9), and change the DATE field to CREATEDATE.

For more information, see he
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm

For the future, you could make the {CREATEDATE} field into an AutoText entry
and assign it a shortcut.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm


On 5/10/05 10:30 PM, "kwjones" wrote:

Every time I open a document it has the current date. I know that you can
turn this off but I don't know where. I believe it is auto update?

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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).Changing the autoupdate setting would only turn future insertions
into text, it would have no effect on current documents. Again, though, long
term putting the field into a template is superior.

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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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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Every time I open a document it has the current date. I know that you can
turn this off but I don't know where. I believe it is auto update?