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Default Automatic Date in Word Document

I need to create a document that I will be sent as an attachment to an email.
I want the document to automatically reflect the date the document was sent.
I do want to open the document itself. How do I do this? Thank you.
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Default Automatic Date in Word Document

The only dates that are available to you are

1. A date that you manually enter into the document
2. The date on which the document was created (by use of the {
CREATEDATE } field
3. The date that the document was last saved (by use of the { SAVEDATE }
field
4. The date upon which the document was printed ( by use of the {
PRINTDATE } field

There is no way of inserting into a document the date upon which it is
handled by some exterior application such as a mail program.

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I need to create a document that I will be sent as an attachment to an
email.
I want the document to automatically reflect the date the document was
sent.
I do want to open the document itself. How do I do this? Thank you.
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valerie


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Default Automatic Date in Word Document

As Doug implies, this is not possible, however what you could do is save the
document as a template and create a new document at the time you send the
attachment. A createdate field in that template will thus reflect in the new
document the date that the document was sent. Otherwise you would have to
open the document, manually or with a macro, and change the date in the
document at the time of sending.

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valerie wrote:
I need to create a document that I will be sent as an attachment to
an email. I want the document to automatically reflect the date the
document was sent. I do want to open the document itself. How do I do
this? Thank you.



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