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The header is fixed by having a different first page header and setting the
first and subsequent page headers before you merge. As indicated in my last post, Word will remember what you have setup when you remove the temporary page break. Setting up letterheads is explained in more detail at http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm The date is a little more complex, but the simplest plan is to use a Quote field {Quote {Date \@ "d MMM yyyy"}} will fix the date as text in the merged document. Change the mask to suit local date patterns. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Karen Hart wrote: Graham, I already have that in my merge source document. My question is, how to be sure that header as well as the first page date are both fixed after the merge is complete. :-) Karen "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The user shouldn't have to remember to insert a second page header. Set the second page header up in the document template (or the merge source document) Word remembers the header settings. Insert a temporary page break, create your headers then remove the page break - see http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Karen Hart wrote: Since there will be a date at the top of the letter, as well as in the second page header, is there some code I can put in at the end of the merge, so the end user does not have to remember to do this every time they create a letter? Thank you, Karen "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... This is not going to work That's what comes from not testing the suggestions before posting. Change the field back to a DATE field, update it, then merge to a new document CTRL+A then CTRL+SHIFT+F9 will fix it. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Karen Hart wrote: Thank you so much for replying, Graham. Coincidentally, I was on your web site checking it out exactly when your reply came :-) What a cool web site! I love it! And I love that cute little thing that follows my pointer around! Anyway, once again, I tried...I insert this into the merge MAIN document: {CREATEDATE \@ "MMMMd, yyyy" \* MERGEFORMAT}. But sure enough, when I merge it, this is what I see: August 24, 2000 (This is the date I originally created this merge source document). (Ctrl-A), (F9) is changing nothing, no matter if I do it before and/or after merging. Please help me out of the twilight zone!! Thanks again, Karen "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The date in the createdate in the merge source document is irrelevant. If you merge to a new document the date that document is created becomes the createdate for that document. If the field shows the wrong date select all (CTRL+A) then update (F9). That should fix it. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Karen Hart wrote: Graham, I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting merged document is displaying the date the original merge form was created...not the date the original merge form is being merged. Does that make sense? In other words, I changed the form document on Jan. 14 and coded the date to be CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form is merged, the resulting date displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing wrong? Thank you. Karen "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The new document will always show the date of the merge. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Karen Hart wrote: How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are several of these date codes throughout the form file, including headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user forgets to unlink the date field. Thank you in advance. Karen |
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