[dotcom]

In Word 2003 I opened a letter I had typed a few years ago and noticed that
the date on it had changed to today's date. I opened a few other letters
and the same thing happened yet on the fourth letter it did not change to
date and it did indeed show the date that I had originally typed in. Why
would that happed? Would this be due to how the date was entered in the
first place? Either by the "Insert Date" from the menu or by just typing it
in? Is there a setting somewhere that cause it to update the date? I would
like for it not to automatically update and leave the date alone as
originally entered.
TIA

[Pat Garard]

G'Day Dot,

If you type in the date then, of course, it will not change.

If you InsertDate then... see Suzanne's article:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm
for the full works!
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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In Word 2003 I opened a letter I had typed a few years ago and noticed that
the date on it had changed to today's date. I opened a few other letters and
the same thing happened yet on the fourth letter it did not change to date and
it did indeed show the date that I had originally typed in. Why would that
happed? Would this be due to how the date was entered in the first place?
Either by the "Insert Date" from the menu or by just typing it in? Is there a
setting somewhere that cause it to update the date? I would like for it not
to automatically update and leave the date alone as originally entered.
TIA

[Charles Kenyon]

You are using a DATE or TIME field rather than a CREATEDATE field. This
field should be put in the original template if possible (instead of
inserting using the keyboard shortcut or header/footer toolbar button).

In the document in question, press Alt-F9 to display field codes. Then
change the field to a CREATEDATE field, press F9 and then Alt-F9.

See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the
different kinds of datefields and how to format them.

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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!

My criminal defense lawyer site: http://addbalance.com.
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In Word 2003 I opened a letter I had typed a few years ago and noticed
that the date on it had changed to today's date. I opened a few other
letters and the same thing happened yet on the fourth letter it did not
change to date and it did indeed show the date that I had originally typed
in. Why would that happed? Would this be due to how the date was entered
in the first place? Either by the "Insert Date" from the menu or by just
typing it in? Is there a setting somewhere that cause it to update the
date? I would like for it not to automatically update and leave the date
alone as originally entered.
TIA