[tammy]

Hi -
I have a general question about using the Date & Time dialog box. Is it
possible for a user to insert one of the available formats, keep the "update
automatically" unchecked, but still have the date automatically update the
next time the document is opened?

I have a user who says she purposely does not select "update automatically"
yet when she opens the document at a later date, the current date shows, not
the creation date.

I have read the posts, and know I can change coding to fix this, or just
type the date manually, but my question is - can Word actually change her
option to update automatically, even if she did not have the box checked when
she hit OK? This seems like quite the bug, if so. I can see the convenience
of using the dialog box to insert a preformatted date, but if you have no
control over what the application does behind the scenes, it seems like a
useless option, unless you do want to have your date update automatically.

Most end users are not that savvy when it comes to recognizing when Word
inserts a field, not straight text. I'm not convinced my end user did
actually uncheck the update automatically box, but since I have no way of
proving that one way, or another, I'd like to know if this is something Word
is known to do on its own.

Thanks for any feedback!

[Graham Mayor]

Anecdotal edvidence from the forums suggest it is possible (maybe a minor
corruption in the Word data key in the registry) but we have no way of
knowing whether the users who report the issue are any more savvy than your
user


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Tammy wrote:
Hi -
I have a general question about using the Date & Time dialog box. Is
it possible for a user to insert one of the available formats, keep
the "update automatically" unchecked, but still have the date
automatically update the next time the document is opened?

I have a user who says she purposely does not select "update
automatically" yet when she opens the document at a later date, the
current date shows, not the creation date.

I have read the posts, and know I can change coding to fix this, or
just type the date manually, but my question is - can Word actually
change her option to update automatically, even if she did not have
the box checked when she hit OK? This seems like quite the bug, if
so. I can see the convenience of using the dialog box to insert a
preformatted date, but if you have no control over what the
application does behind the scenes, it seems like a useless option,
unless you do want to have your date update automatically.

Most end users are not that savvy when it comes to recognizing when
Word inserts a field, not straight text. I'm not convinced my end
user did actually uncheck the update automatically box, but since I
have no way of proving that one way, or another, I'd like to know if
this is something Word is known to do on its own.

Thanks for any feedback!

[tammy]

Ah, very good, Graham. Thank you!

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Anecdotal edvidence from the forums suggest it is possible (maybe a minor
corruption in the Word data key in the registry) but we have no way of
knowing whether the users who report the issue are any more savvy than your
user


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Tammy wrote:
Hi -
I have a general question about using the Date & Time dialog box. Is
it possible for a user to insert one of the available formats, keep
the "update automatically" unchecked, but still have the date
automatically update the next time the document is opened?

I have a user who says she purposely does not select "update
automatically" yet when she opens the document at a later date, the
current date shows, not the creation date.

I have read the posts, and know I can change coding to fix this, or
just type the date manually, but my question is - can Word actually
change her option to update automatically, even if she did not have
the box checked when she hit OK? This seems like quite the bug, if
so. I can see the convenience of using the dialog box to insert a
preformatted date, but if you have no control over what the
application does behind the scenes, it seems like a useless option,
unless you do want to have your date update automatically.

Most end users are not that savvy when it comes to recognizing when
Word inserts a field, not straight text. I'm not convinced my end
user did actually uncheck the update automatically box, but since I
have no way of proving that one way, or another, I'd like to know if
this is something Word is known to do on its own.

Thanks for any feedback!