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Date/Time will not automatically update.
I am using Office Word 2003 Pro (SP2) and I cannot get the date/time fields
to update when document is opened even though "Autoupdate" is checked in the Insert/Date+Time Menu. Any advice? |
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Date/Time will not automatically update.
The "AutoUpdate" setting is specific to the next date field you enter. It is
not a system setting or a document setting. Generally, you may be better off saving these documents, which you are apparently using to produce new documents, as templates. Put a CreateDate field in the templates. It will update to the current date when a new document is created based on the template. Otherwise, change the dates in your documents to Date fields, which they currently seem to not be. I'm not advising this, but answering your question. See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the different kinds of datefields and how to format them. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "loates" wrote in message news I am using Office Word 2003 Pro (SP2) and I cannot get the date/time fields to update when document is opened even though "Autoupdate" is checked in the Insert/Date+Time Menu. Any advice? |
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Date/Time will not automatically update.
You know, I should have explained, I am very new to this program. In fact,
that is why I am asking for help, I am taking a Word class at a community college (online, so my instructor cannot see what I am doing, when I actually do it). I had to take my first test last week, and one of the assignments for the test was to insert the date and time so that they update automatically whenever the document is opened. I went through the Menu Bar - Insert/Date&Time - and made certain that "update automatically" box was checked. My instructor tells me that this is the correct method, but for some reason, it is not updating. I am afraid I will be marked off for every test because of this. My instructor has been virtually no help at all, she says that since nobody else who is using Word 2003 Pro is having this problem, it might be specific to my software - a glich of sorts. Anyway, the reason for my whole long explanation is this - I do not understand what you are telling me to do. I am very new to Word, and am not sure if what you are saying would satisfy the instructors requirements. I was hoping that there was something I need to check/or uncheck that I may not know about, and my instructor is forgetting (or she doesn't believe me, just thinks I am trying to get back the points she marked me off on the test). Thanks so much for you help and response, though. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: The "AutoUpdate" setting is specific to the next date field you enter. It is not a system setting or a document setting. Generally, you may be better off saving these documents, which you are apparently using to produce new documents, as templates. Put a CreateDate field in the templates. It will update to the current date when a new document is created based on the template. Otherwise, change the dates in your documents to Date fields, which they currently seem to not be. I'm not advising this, but answering your question. See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the different kinds of datefields and how to format them. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "loates" wrote in message news I am using Office Word 2003 Pro (SP2) and I cannot get the date/time fields to update when document is opened even though "Autoupdate" is checked in the Insert/Date+Time Menu. Any advice? |
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Date/Time will not automatically update.
What you inserted if you used the method you specify was a DATE or TIME
field. If you press Alt+F9 to view the field code, you should see { DATE } or { TIME }, probably with some switches to specify the format. If in fact you have a field, then it can be updated. It may not update *automatically,* depending on your settings, but it can be updated using F9. Alt+F9 to toggle the field back to display the field result, click in it, and press F9. Some fields that used to update automatically in Word no longer do so; in some cases the change occurred between versions, in some cases as a result of applying a patch to a specific version of Word or Windows. If you have "Update fields" checked on the Print tab of Tools | Options, your date field will probably update when you switch to Print Preview and certainly when you print. For more information about updating fields, see "Which fields are updated when you open, repaginate, or print document" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211629. For more about date fields (in case you ever want to know more), see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm The information Charles gave you can be saved for a time when you want a field that *doesn't* update! -- 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. "loates" wrote in message ... You know, I should have explained, I am very new to this program. In fact, that is why I am asking for help, I am taking a Word class at a community college (online, so my instructor cannot see what I am doing, when I actually do it). I had to take my first test last week, and one of the assignments for the test was to insert the date and time so that they update automatically whenever the document is opened. I went through the Menu Bar - Insert/Date&Time - and made certain that "update automatically" box was checked. My instructor tells me that this is the correct method, but for some reason, it is not updating. I am afraid I will be marked off for every test because of this. My instructor has been virtually no help at all, she says that since nobody else who is using Word 2003 Pro is having this problem, it might be specific to my software - a glich of sorts. Anyway, the reason for my whole long explanation is this - I do not understand what you are telling me to do. I am very new to Word, and am not sure if what you are saying would satisfy the instructors requirements. I was hoping that there was something I need to check/or uncheck that I may not know about, and my instructor is forgetting (or she doesn't believe me, just thinks I am trying to get back the points she marked me off on the test). Thanks so much for you help and response, though. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: The "AutoUpdate" setting is specific to the next date field you enter. It is not a system setting or a document setting. Generally, you may be better off saving these documents, which you are apparently using to produce new documents, as templates. Put a CreateDate field in the templates. It will update to the current date when a new document is created based on the template. Otherwise, change the dates in your documents to Date fields, which they currently seem to not be. I'm not advising this, but answering your question. See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the different kinds of datefields and how to format them. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "loates" wrote in message news I am using Office Word 2003 Pro (SP2) and I cannot get the date/time fields to update when document is opened even though "Autoupdate" is checked in the Insert/Date+Time Menu. Any advice? |
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Date/Time will not automatically update.
It did update when I switched to Print Preview. However, you said "depending
on your settings" it may not automatically update. What settings would I need to change to make it update automatically whenever the document is opened, as this is what she (my instructor) wants it to do? The class is a Word 2002 class, but the syllabus stated that there would be relatively few issues for users of Word 2003, and we could go ahead and sign up. But, I have a real problem with automatically losing 5 points off the top of a 20 point test, everytime, just because my software is a different version. Is there someone from Microsoft that can confirm that my program will not do this automatically in this version? Also, I am using SP2, though I don't know if that makes a difference. Thanks for any and all help I can get. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you inserted if you used the method you specify was a DATE or TIME field. If you press Alt+F9 to view the field code, you should see { DATE } or { TIME }, probably with some switches to specify the format. If in fact you have a field, then it can be updated. It may not update *automatically,* depending on your settings, but it can be updated using F9. Alt+F9 to toggle the field back to display the field result, click in it, and press F9. Some fields that used to update automatically in Word no longer do so; in some cases the change occurred between versions, in some cases as a result of applying a patch to a specific version of Word or Windows. If you have "Update fields" checked on the Print tab of Tools | Options, your date field will probably update when you switch to Print Preview and certainly when you print. For more information about updating fields, see "Which fields are updated when you open, repaginate, or print document" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211629. For more about date fields (in case you ever want to know more), see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm The information Charles gave you can be saved for a time when you want a field that *doesn't* update! -- 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. "loates" wrote in message ... You know, I should have explained, I am very new to this program. In fact, that is why I am asking for help, I am taking a Word class at a community college (online, so my instructor cannot see what I am doing, when I actually do it). I had to take my first test last week, and one of the assignments for the test was to insert the date and time so that they update automatically whenever the document is opened. I went through the Menu Bar - Insert/Date&Time - and made certain that "update automatically" box was checked. My instructor tells me that this is the correct method, but for some reason, it is not updating. I am afraid I will be marked off for every test because of this. My instructor has been virtually no help at all, she says that since nobody else who is using Word 2003 Pro is having this problem, it might be specific to my software - a glich of sorts. Anyway, the reason for my whole long explanation is this - I do not understand what you are telling me to do. I am very new to Word, and am not sure if what you are saying would satisfy the instructors requirements. I was hoping that there was something I need to check/or uncheck that I may not know about, and my instructor is forgetting (or she doesn't believe me, just thinks I am trying to get back the points she marked me off on the test). Thanks so much for you help and response, though. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: The "AutoUpdate" setting is specific to the next date field you enter. It is not a system setting or a document setting. Generally, you may be better off saving these documents, which you are apparently using to produce new documents, as templates. Put a CreateDate field in the templates. It will update to the current date when a new document is created based on the template. Otherwise, change the dates in your documents to Date fields, which they currently seem to not be. I'm not advising this, but answering your question. See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the different kinds of datefields and how to format them. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "loates" wrote in message news I am using Office Word 2003 Pro (SP2) and I cannot get the date/time fields to update when document is opened even though "Autoupdate" is checked in the Insert/Date+Time Menu. Any advice? |
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Date/Time will not automatically update.
Fields in the header and footer update when the document is repaginated (for
example, when you switch to Print Layout view) regardless of your settings. Other fields are updated at print time (or when you Print Preview) if you have "Update fields" checked on the Print tab of Tools | Options. The only other information I can find about updating fields in Word 2003 is in the KB article I already referenced. This article specifically states that DATE and TIME fields are not updated except when you print or Print Preview (and then only when the "Update fields" option is enabled). -- 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. "loates" wrote in message ... It did update when I switched to Print Preview. However, you said "depending on your settings" it may not automatically update. What settings would I need to change to make it update automatically whenever the document is opened, as this is what she (my instructor) wants it to do? The class is a Word 2002 class, but the syllabus stated that there would be relatively few issues for users of Word 2003, and we could go ahead and sign up. But, I have a real problem with automatically losing 5 points off the top of a 20 point test, everytime, just because my software is a different version. Is there someone from Microsoft that can confirm that my program will not do this automatically in this version? Also, I am using SP2, though I don't know if that makes a difference. Thanks for any and all help I can get. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you inserted if you used the method you specify was a DATE or TIME field. If you press Alt+F9 to view the field code, you should see { DATE } or { TIME }, probably with some switches to specify the format. If in fact you have a field, then it can be updated. It may not update *automatically,* depending on your settings, but it can be updated using F9. Alt+F9 to toggle the field back to display the field result, click in it, and press F9. Some fields that used to update automatically in Word no longer do so; in some cases the change occurred between versions, in some cases as a result of applying a patch to a specific version of Word or Windows. If you have "Update fields" checked on the Print tab of Tools | Options, your date field will probably update when you switch to Print Preview and certainly when you print. For more information about updating fields, see "Which fields are updated when you open, repaginate, or print document" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211629. For more about date fields (in case you ever want to know more), see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm The information Charles gave you can be saved for a time when you want a field that *doesn't* update! -- 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. "loates" wrote in message ... You know, I should have explained, I am very new to this program. In fact, that is why I am asking for help, I am taking a Word class at a community college (online, so my instructor cannot see what I am doing, when I actually do it). I had to take my first test last week, and one of the assignments for the test was to insert the date and time so that they update automatically whenever the document is opened. I went through the Menu Bar - Insert/Date&Time - and made certain that "update automatically" box was checked. My instructor tells me that this is the correct method, but for some reason, it is not updating. I am afraid I will be marked off for every test because of this. My instructor has been virtually no help at all, she says that since nobody else who is using Word 2003 Pro is having this problem, it might be specific to my software - a glich of sorts. Anyway, the reason for my whole long explanation is this - I do not understand what you are telling me to do. I am very new to Word, and am not sure if what you are saying would satisfy the instructors requirements. I was hoping that there was something I need to check/or uncheck that I may not know about, and my instructor is forgetting (or she doesn't believe me, just thinks I am trying to get back the points she marked me off on the test). Thanks so much for you help and response, though. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: The "AutoUpdate" setting is specific to the next date field you enter. It is not a system setting or a document setting. Generally, you may be better off saving these documents, which you are apparently using to produce new documents, as templates. Put a CreateDate field in the templates. It will update to the current date when a new document is created based on the template. Otherwise, change the dates in your documents to Date fields, which they currently seem to not be. I'm not advising this, but answering your question. See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the different kinds of datefields and how to format them. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "loates" wrote in message news I am using Office Word 2003 Pro (SP2) and I cannot get the date/time fields to update when document is opened even though "Autoupdate" is checked in the Insert/Date+Time Menu. Any advice? |
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Date/Time will not automatically update.
Sorry, I don't know because inserting such a field is almost always a bad
idea. Tell your instructor that I said a CreateDate field in a document template is far better for most purposes. I never use the InsertDate command. Again, the settings in effect immediately before the date is inserted are the important ones. You can view the fields (to make sure you inserted a field and not text) by pressing Alt-F9. If you inserted text, it will just show the date, otherwise it will show field codes. Pressing Alt-F9 again gets you back to normal (result) view of your fields. The differences that Suzanne is talking about depend on the version of Word (and fixes, updates, etc.) that your instructor has, so if it is working for other people on the instructor's computer, it should work for you. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "loates" wrote in message ... It did update when I switched to Print Preview. However, you said "depending on your settings" it may not automatically update. What settings would I need to change to make it update automatically whenever the document is opened, as this is what she (my instructor) wants it to do? The class is a Word 2002 class, but the syllabus stated that there would be relatively few issues for users of Word 2003, and we could go ahead and sign up. But, I have a real problem with automatically losing 5 points off the top of a 20 point test, everytime, just because my software is a different version. Is there someone from Microsoft that can confirm that my program will not do this automatically in this version? Also, I am using SP2, though I don't know if that makes a difference. Thanks for any and all help I can get. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you inserted if you used the method you specify was a DATE or TIME field. If you press Alt+F9 to view the field code, you should see { DATE } or { TIME }, probably with some switches to specify the format. If in fact you have a field, then it can be updated. It may not update *automatically,* depending on your settings, but it can be updated using F9. Alt+F9 to toggle the field back to display the field result, click in it, and press F9. Some fields that used to update automatically in Word no longer do so; in some cases the change occurred between versions, in some cases as a result of applying a patch to a specific version of Word or Windows. If you have "Update fields" checked on the Print tab of Tools | Options, your date field will probably update when you switch to Print Preview and certainly when you print. For more information about updating fields, see "Which fields are updated when you open, repaginate, or print document" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211629. For more about date fields (in case you ever want to know more), see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm The information Charles gave you can be saved for a time when you want a field that *doesn't* update! -- 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. "loates" wrote in message ... You know, I should have explained, I am very new to this program. In fact, that is why I am asking for help, I am taking a Word class at a community college (online, so my instructor cannot see what I am doing, when I actually do it). I had to take my first test last week, and one of the assignments for the test was to insert the date and time so that they update automatically whenever the document is opened. I went through the Menu Bar - Insert/Date&Time - and made certain that "update automatically" box was checked. My instructor tells me that this is the correct method, but for some reason, it is not updating. I am afraid I will be marked off for every test because of this. My instructor has been virtually no help at all, she says that since nobody else who is using Word 2003 Pro is having this problem, it might be specific to my software - a glich of sorts. Anyway, the reason for my whole long explanation is this - I do not understand what you are telling me to do. I am very new to Word, and am not sure if what you are saying would satisfy the instructors requirements. I was hoping that there was something I need to check/or uncheck that I may not know about, and my instructor is forgetting (or she doesn't believe me, just thinks I am trying to get back the points she marked me off on the test). Thanks so much for you help and response, though. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: The "AutoUpdate" setting is specific to the next date field you enter. It is not a system setting or a document setting. Generally, you may be better off saving these documents, which you are apparently using to produce new documents, as templates. Put a CreateDate field in the templates. It will update to the current date when a new document is created based on the template. Otherwise, change the dates in your documents to Date fields, which they currently seem to not be. I'm not advising this, but answering your question. See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the different kinds of datefields and how to format them. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "loates" wrote in message news I am using Office Word 2003 Pro (SP2) and I cannot get the date/time fields to update when document is opened even though "Autoupdate" is checked in the Insert/Date+Time Menu. Any advice? |
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