Hi Graham,

I meant that if you want to insert the current date in a document that you
created before today (or if you for example started a document yesterday,
finish it today and then send it out into the big world), you wouldn't want
the CreateDate field.

Cooz


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

No you probably won't! The creation date is just that - the date the
document was last saved using save as ....

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Cooz wrote:
Hi Jilly,

In addition to Jezebel's post: while a CreateDate field genarally
works, you'll probably get the wrong date in documents created before
today.

Cooz


"Jezebel" wrote:

You've entered a DATE field (press Alt-F9 to see it). Use CreateDate
instead.



"Jilly" wrote in message
...
Using Word 2000. I type a date in a letter DD MM YYYY (not
automatic) and save the document. But when i reopen at a later
date the date is changed to
the current date which I don't want. How can I stop this happening
please.
Thank you