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Updating date
I have a template which automatically puts a date in each time it is
opened which is great. The trouble is that when I save the document and open up a day later the date has changed to the current date whereas I want it to remain at the date when I originally created the document. How do I get the date to stop updating after its first insertion? I am using Vista and Word 2007. Thanks Karen |
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Updating date
Open your template, press Alt+F9 to toggle the field codes. In your DATE
field, type "CREATE" in front of DATE. It should look something like, CREATEDATE (no spaces). Press Alt+F9 to toggle off the field codes, select the field and press F9 to update and test it. Note that the creation date for the template will be the date it was created but your new documents will have their own creation date when you create a new document based on the template. For previously created documents you can use the same steps and change the DATE field to CREATEDATE. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Kipper6" wrote in message ups.com... I have a template which automatically puts a date in each time it is opened which is great. The trouble is that when I save the document and open up a day later the date has changed to the current date whereas I want it to remain at the date when I originally created the document. How do I get the date to stop updating after its first insertion? I am using Vista and Word 2007. Thanks Karen |
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Updating date
Right-click the date in any of these documents and choose Toggle Field
Codes. Change the word DATE to CREATEDATE. Right-click again and choose Update Field. To fix this for all future documents, make the same change in the template. On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:27:34 -0700, Kipper6 wrote: I have a template which automatically puts a date in each time it is opened which is great. The trouble is that when I save the document and open up a day later the date has changed to the current date whereas I want it to remain at the date when I originally created the document. How do I get the date to stop updating after its first insertion? I am using Vista and Word 2007. Thanks Karen -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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