[MAB]

A friend of mine has this issue he asked me about, but I have no explanation.

He says that he has a bunch of saved Word files that have manually input
dates at the top of the document (greeting line). He says that ever since
his company upgraded their Office 2003 to SP2, the date fields in those saved
documents are now date fields. How can Word change input date data to date
fields?

Does anyone have any idea how this is or offer some kind of logical
explanation?

Thanks in advance.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It depends on how they were "manually input." If the typist used Alt+Shift+D
or the Insert Date button on the Header and Footer toolbar or used Insert |
Date and Time with the "Update automatically" box checked, the result was a
DATE field. This can be corrected by changing the field to CREATEDATE, which
will then reflect the creation date of the document. It would be advisable
to put a CREATEDATE field in the document template to save typists from
having to insert the date manually.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"MAB" wrote in message
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A friend of mine has this issue he asked me about, but I have no
explanation.

He says that he has a bunch of saved Word files that have manually input
dates at the top of the document (greeting line). He says that ever since
his company upgraded their Office 2003 to SP2, the date fields in those
saved
documents are now date fields. How can Word change input date data to
date
fields?

Does anyone have any idea how this is or offer some kind of logical
explanation?

Thanks in advance.

[Me]

My buddy says that the dates were typed in manually.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

It depends on how they were "manually input." If the typist used Alt+Shift+D
or the Insert Date button on the Header and Footer toolbar or used Insert |
Date and Time with the "Update automatically" box checked, the result was a
DATE field. This can be corrected by changing the field to CREATEDATE, which
will then reflect the creation date of the document. It would be advisable
to put a CREATEDATE field in the document template to save typists from
having to insert the date manually.

--
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.

"MAB" wrote in message
...
A friend of mine has this issue he asked me about, but I have no
explanation.

He says that he has a bunch of saved Word files that have manually input
dates at the top of the document (greeting line). He says that ever since
his company upgraded their Office 2003 to SP2, the date fields in those
saved
documents are now date fields. How can Word change input date data to
date
fields?

Does anyone have any idea how this is or offer some kind of logical
explanation?

Thanks in advance.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Short of a macro of some sort, I don't know of any way for a typed-in date
to be converted to a field. Someone's memory is faulty.

--
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
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"Me" wrote in message
...
My buddy says that the dates were typed in manually.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

It depends on how they were "manually input." If the typist used
Alt+Shift+D
or the Insert Date button on the Header and Footer toolbar or used
Insert |
Date and Time with the "Update automatically" box checked, the result
was a
DATE field. This can be corrected by changing the field to CREATEDATE,
which
will then reflect the creation date of the document. It would be
advisable
to put a CREATEDATE field in the document template to save typists from
having to insert the date manually.

--
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.

"MAB" wrote in message
...
A friend of mine has this issue he asked me about, but I have no
explanation.

He says that he has a bunch of saved Word files that have manually
input
dates at the top of the document (greeting line). He says that ever
since
his company upgraded their Office 2003 to SP2, the date fields in
those
saved
documents are now date fields. How can Word change input date data to
date
fields?

Does anyone have any idea how this is or offer some kind of logical
explanation?

Thanks in advance.

[Charles Kenyon]

It will not. If he opened the original documents in Word 97, they would
still be date fields.

Perhaps he somehow triggered the display of field codes. Alt-F9 toggles
this.
--
Charles Kenyon

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"MAB" wrote in message
...
A friend of mine has this issue he asked me about, but I have no
explanation.

He says that he has a bunch of saved Word files that have manually input
dates at the top of the document (greeting line). He says that ever since
his company upgraded their Office 2003 to SP2, the date fields in those
saved
documents are now date fields. How can Word change input date data to
date
fields?

Does anyone have any idea how this is or offer some kind of logical
explanation?

Thanks in advance.