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todays date showing up on a new or saved page
I'm NOT technical, and I've read the previous posts regarding normal.dot, so
hopefully someone can tell me the answer simply. 1. If I just open a blank page I would like todays date to appear on the upper right side. 2. And this may not be possible, can i save a page on which i have all of my personal info and picture as a template, and then when i open that template, have the current date appear? thank you ! |
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todays date showing up on a new or saved page
The answer to your first question is "yes you can, but you really
should not." The reason is that normal.dot, which is the template used to make "just a blank page" documents, is also used for other purposes such as labels. If you never use those other kinds of document, then you can put a CREATEDATE field in the normal.dot template and it will put the current date in every new blank document. (Use a CREATEDATE field instead of a DATE field -- see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...DateFields.htm for details of why.) Generally, the article http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...alTemplate.htm discusses changes in normal.dot. For your second question, the answer is definitely yes. Make a new template -- either through the File New dialog or by setting the file type to Word Template in the File Save As dialog -- put your information in it, and put a CREATEDATE field where you want today's date to appear. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:13:01 -0800, Myawitz wrote: I'm NOT technical, and I've read the previous posts regarding normal.dot, so hopefully someone can tell me the answer simply. 1. If I just open a blank page I would like todays date to appear on the upper right side. 2. And this may not be possible, can i save a page on which i have all of my personal info and picture as a template, and then when i open that template, have the current date appear? thank you ! |
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