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Current date in newly merged document that does not update
I have created a letter merge form and saved it as a .dot. For the date at
the top of the form letter and in the header for the second page I have inserted a Create Date field. When the merge is performed the new document is supposed to have the current date at the time of the merge and not automatically update. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work. When I merge the document the date that I inserted the Create Date field is inserted into my new document as text. There must be a way to have the current date come up in my new .doc when it is merged from the .dot. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Current date in newly merged document that does not update
If you want the merged documents to show the date on which the merge was
executed (rather than the data on which the mail merge main document was created from the template), you should use a { DATE } field in the template. Or possibly a { PRINTDATE } or { SAVEDATE } field as appropriate. If you use the { DATE } field, you may want to unlink it after executing the merge, so that it does not update. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "NaBellFL" wrote in message ... I have created a letter merge form and saved it as a .dot. For the date at the top of the form letter and in the header for the second page I have inserted a Create Date field. When the merge is performed the new document is supposed to have the current date at the time of the merge and not automatically update. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work. When I merge the document the date that I inserted the Create Date field is inserted into my new document as text. There must be a way to have the current date come up in my new .doc when it is merged from the .dot. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Hi Doug,
The SAVEDATE field has the same problem as a CREATEDATE field - you get the date for the mailmerge main document instead of for the output document. The DATE field is probably the best way to go, and you can force the mailmerge process to unlink it instead of having to remember to do so afterwards. You can do this by inserting the DATE field in a simple IF field. For example: {IF =1 {DATE}} -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com" wrote in message ... If you want the merged documents to show the date on which the merge was executed (rather than the data on which the mail merge main document was created from the template), you should use a { DATE } field in the template. Or possibly a { PRINTDATE } or { SAVEDATE } field as appropriate. If you use the { DATE } field, you may want to unlink it after executing the merge, so that it does not update. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "NaBellFL" wrote in message ... I have created a letter merge form and saved it as a .dot. For the date at the top of the form letter and in the header for the second page I have inserted a Create Date field. When the merge is performed the new document is supposed to have the current date at the time of the merge and not automatically update. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work. When I merge the document the date that I inserted the Create Date field is inserted into my new document as text. There must be a way to have the current date come up in my new .doc when it is merged from the .dot. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Thank you for your response. I will try this.
"macropod" wrote: Hi Doug, The SAVEDATE field has the same problem as a CREATEDATE field - you get the date for the mailmerge main document instead of for the output document. The DATE field is probably the best way to go, and you can force the mailmerge process to unlink it instead of having to remember to do so afterwards. You can do this by inserting the DATE field in a simple IF field. For example: {IF =1 {DATE}} -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com" wrote in message ... If you want the merged documents to show the date on which the merge was executed (rather than the data on which the mail merge main document was created from the template), you should use a { DATE } field in the template. Or possibly a { PRINTDATE } or { SAVEDATE } field as appropriate. If you use the { DATE } field, you may want to unlink it after executing the merge, so that it does not update. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "NaBellFL" wrote in message ... I have created a letter merge form and saved it as a .dot. For the date at the top of the form letter and in the header for the second page I have inserted a Create Date field. When the merge is performed the new document is supposed to have the current date at the time of the merge and not automatically update. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work. When I merge the document the date that I inserted the Create Date field is inserted into my new document as text. There must be a way to have the current date come up in my new .doc when it is merged from the .dot. Any help would be appreciated. |
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