Hi Arden,
In your mailmerge main document, simply embed the DATE field in a QUOTE field. To do this, select the date field, press Ctrl-F9 to
embed it in another field and type 'QUOTE' inside the left field brace. You should see something like:
{QUOTE1 December 2009}
Press F9 to update the field, then run your mailerge. The output document will now have today's date as plain text, rather than as a
DATE field.
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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]
"Arden" wrote in message news
I am working with mailmerge documents which must print today's date in the
letter. A copy of the generated file also must be saved as an historic
archive of what was printed today, retaining the generated date even when
being viewed tomorrow.
I had started with Today and realized that it recalculates each time the
document is opened. No good.
So then I built the document with SAVEDATE and it seems to work as long as I
manually run the merge from within the document.
The desired goal, however, is to use a VBA macro to run the merge and then
copy and store the generated file in a specific directory. Though the
SAVEDATE works within the manual merge process, the macro's execution of the
merge generates a date before today...?
Any advice?
Thanks.