Use a template with the CreateDate field. When you want to do a merge,
create a new document based on the template and merge that.
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"kaykayIT" wrote in message
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We previously used Access to create our Word documents from Templates and
inserting data from the access database. Now we are just using Word
documents and mailmerge using an Excel spreadsheet as the datasource.
However there is the problem of putting the date the document was created
in
the newly merged document. If I use the Inserted Field {CREATEDATE} it
puts
the date the main document was created into the merge document. This was
not
a problem when using templates from Access but now it does not work with
Word
Mailmerge. Any suggestions?