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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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm
-- 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. "Tim T." Tim wrote in message ... 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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