Chrissy.

In your template change select the date field, right click and toggle field
codes. Change { DATE } to { CREATEDATE }. Right click and toggle field
codes again then save the template.

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Greg Maxey/Word MVP
A Peer in Peer to Peer Support

Chrissy wrote:
sOur secretaries use templates for letter etc. Currently the date is
input automatically as the current day's date. The only problem with
this is that when you reprint the document at a later date the date
on the print out again reflects the current date on the computer not
the date the letter was orginally printed. Is there a way to get an
auto date into new letter which is then fixed not set as auto update?