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Insert date function misbehaving
I have Word 2003 SP2. When I retrieve a document with a date in the body of
the text which is a few months old, the date is automatically updated to the current date even though the tick box for this function was not ticked. I believe the affcted documents may have been originally typed using Word 97. (I updated my computer about two months ago and transferred the old documents to the new computer. My old computer was running Win98SE with Office 97 Pro) Is there any way of preventing this since the dates in these letters, and particularly invoices, are crucial. Tony |
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Insert date function misbehaving
If the dates that should appear are the dates the respective documents
were created, you can get them back. Each date is the result of a DATE field. Right-click one and select Toggle Field Codes. In the code, change the word DATE to CREATEDATE. Then right-click again and select Update Field. Whenever you want to insert a date that won't change, either insert a CREATEDATE field to begin with (from the Insert Field dialog), or insert a date as you have been doing but then click on it and press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to change it to plain text. (Unchecking the "Automatically update" box in the Insert Date dialog should have inserted plain text as you expected, but clearly you now have DATE fields, so something went wrong.) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:41:03 -0700, TonyFrim wrote: I have Word 2003 SP2. When I retrieve a document with a date in the body of the text which is a few months old, the date is automatically updated to the current date even though the tick box for this function was not ticked. I believe the affcted documents may have been originally typed using Word 97. (I updated my computer about two months ago and transferred the old documents to the new computer. My old computer was running Win98SE with Office 97 Pro) Is there any way of preventing this since the dates in these letters, and particularly invoices, are crucial. Tony |
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Insert date function misbehaving
(Unchecking the "Automatically update" box in the Insert Date dialog
should have inserted plain text as you expected, but clearly you now have DATE fields, so something went wrong.) Also note that the current status of the check box has no bearing on the dates that have already been inserted as fields; it applies only to the dates that you are currently inserting. Note also that the Insert Date button on the Header and Footer toolbar and the Alt+Shift+D shortcut both insert DATE fields. -- 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. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... If the dates that should appear are the dates the respective documents were created, you can get them back. Each date is the result of a DATE field. Right-click one and select Toggle Field Codes. In the code, change the word DATE to CREATEDATE. Then right-click again and select Update Field. Whenever you want to insert a date that won't change, either insert a CREATEDATE field to begin with (from the Insert Field dialog), or insert a date as you have been doing but then click on it and press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to change it to plain text. (Unchecking the "Automatically update" box in the Insert Date dialog should have inserted plain text as you expected, but clearly you now have DATE fields, so something went wrong.) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:41:03 -0700, TonyFrim wrote: I have Word 2003 SP2. When I retrieve a document with a date in the body of the text which is a few months old, the date is automatically updated to the current date even though the tick box for this function was not ticked. I believe the affcted documents may have been originally typed using Word 97. (I updated my computer about two months ago and transferred the old documents to the new computer. My old computer was running Win98SE with Office 97 Pro) Is there any way of preventing this since the dates in these letters, and particularly invoices, are crucial. Tony |
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