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Unless you want the date on every page, put it in the text area. You can
always reproduce it in the header (if necessary) with a Styleref field. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Luc Benninger wrote: I am creating a dot that will be used by several people. It contains a createdate field, so a new document will have todays date. But users may also write documents that should have dates in the past or future, the date should therefore be editable manually. As long as this field is in the content area of the document this works fine, but it should be in the header area. There the field seems to be updated automatically on every print or print preview. So the date will be reset to the real creation date. Anybody knows how I can prevent the field in the header to be updated? Without using VBA or telling all users that they have to use the "lock field" function (Ctrl-3) after having changed the date. Using Word XP. thanks for any hints Luc |
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If the date should be a specific date, the field should be either unlinked
or overwritten with plain text. -- 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. "Luc Benninger" wrote in message ... I am creating a dot that will be used by several people. It contains a createdate field, so a new document will have todays date. But users may also write documents that should have dates in the past or future, the date should therefore be editable manually. As long as this field is in the content area of the document this works fine, but it should be in the header area. There the field seems to be updated automatically on every print or print preview. So the date will be reset to the real creation date. Anybody knows how I can prevent the field in the header to be updated? Without using VBA or telling all users that they have to use the "lock field" function (Ctrl-3) after having changed the date. Using Word XP. thanks for any hints Luc |
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Manually edit date in createdate field
I am creating a dot that will be used by several people. It contains a
createdate field, so a new document will have todays date. But users may also write documents that should have dates in the past or future, the date should therefore be editable manually. As long as this field is in the content area of the document this works fine, but it should be in the header area. There the field seems to be updated automatically on every print or print preview. So the date will be reset to the real creation date. Anybody knows how I can prevent the field in the header to be updated? Without using VBA or telling all users that they have to use the "lock field" function (Ctrl-3) after having changed the date. Using Word XP. thanks for any hints Luc |
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