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using date field in merge
Could somebody help me with this :
I have made several standard letters to use as a 'template' for mail merge I would like to put in a date that updates to the date when the documents, based on the template, is created. Or I get a date that is the date the template is made Or I get a date that is update every time the document is opened No way to get a date that is the date the document is created Any Idea's? Thanks |
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If your templates are .dot files and you are using File|New to create
documents based on them, a { CREATEDATE } field should do the trick. But it won't work if your "templates" are .doc files and you are copying them to create your new documents. There can be problems using .dot files as the starting point for a merge, because in recent versions of Word at least, both the template and the document based on it try to open the data source, and this will fail with some types of data source such as .doc files Peter Jamieson "Henri Vrancken" wrote in message ... Could somebody help me with this : I have made several standard letters to use as a 'template' for mail merge I would like to put in a date that updates to the date when the documents, based on the template, is created. Or I get a date that is the date the template is made Or I get a date that is update every time the document is opened No way to get a date that is the date the document is created Any Idea's? Thanks |
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Templates are doc files, to bad,
Thanks for the advice "Peter Jamieson" schreef in bericht ... If your templates are .dot files and you are using File|New to create documents based on them, a { CREATEDATE } field should do the trick. But it won't work if your "templates" are .doc files and you are copying them to create your new documents. There can be problems using .dot files as the starting point for a merge, because in recent versions of Word at least, both the template and the document based on it try to open the data source, and this will fail with some types of data source such as .doc files Peter Jamieson "Henri Vrancken" wrote in message ... Could somebody help me with this : I have made several standard letters to use as a 'template' for mail merge I would like to put in a date that updates to the date when the documents, based on the template, is created. Or I get a date that is the date the template is made Or I get a date that is update every time the document is opened No way to get a date that is the date the document is created Any Idea's? Thanks |
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If you merge to a new document the creation date of that new document will
be the date reflected in the CREATEDATE field in that document (you may need to update the fields after merging). The date of the field in the source document only reflects the source document creation date and thus is irrelevant. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Henri Vrancken wrote: Templates are doc files, to bad, Thanks for the advice "Peter Jamieson" schreef in bericht ... If your templates are .dot files and you are using File|New to create documents based on them, a { CREATEDATE } field should do the trick. But it won't work if your "templates" are .doc files and you are copying them to create your new documents. There can be problems using .dot files as the starting point for a merge, because in recent versions of Word at least, both the template and the document based on it try to open the data source, and this will fail with some types of data source such as .doc files Peter Jamieson "Henri Vrancken" wrote in message ... Could somebody help me with this : I have made several standard letters to use as a 'template' for mail merge I would like to put in a date that updates to the date when the documents, based on the template, is created. Or I get a date that is the date the template is made Or I get a date that is update every time the document is opened No way to get a date that is the date the document is created Any Idea's? Thanks |
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