I wish to have the dates I insert in my document *not* updated so I can see
when the different sections were written. On the Insert Date & Time tab I
have unchecked 'update automatically'. Yet every time I, for example, change
from normal view to page view, all the dates are updated to the current
day's date. How can I stop this?

Instead of DATE fields, use CREATEDATE.


"Walt G" wrote in message
...
I wish to have the dates I insert in my document *not* updated so I can
see
when the different sections were written. On the Insert Date & Time tab
I
have unchecked 'update automatically'. Yet every time I, for example,
change
from normal view to page view, all the dates are updated to the current
day's date. How can I stop this?

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:25:45 -0000, "Walt G"
wrote:

I wish to have the dates I insert in my document *not* updated so I can see
when the different sections were written. On the Insert Date & Time tab I
have unchecked 'update automatically'. Yet every time I, for example, change
from normal view to page view, all the dates are updated to the current
day's date. How can I stop this?

Hi Walt,

Did you uncheck the 'update automatically' box *before* you inserted
the date from that dialog? It doesn't operate after the fact -- once a
date is inserted as a field, you have to use a different method to
"unlink" the field.

First, try to confirm that you can insert a date as plain text -- open
the Insert Date dialog, make sure the update box is unchecked,
select a format, and click OK. Now right-click the date you just
inserted. The popup menu should *not* include entries for Toggle Field
Codes or Update Field. If those entries are there, something's wrong
with your Word. I'm not sure how to fix it, but you could try the
procedures at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissngMenusEtc.htm
and "Creating a new Normal.dot from scratch" in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm to see if
they help.

You can select each date field in existing documents and change it to
plain text by pressing Ctrl+Shift+F9. Then you'll have to change the
text to the date when the section was written, if you know it.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Jezebel, I don't think that's going to help in this case. Walt said he
has multiple sections in the document, each written on a different
date, that he wants to mark. There's only one CreateDate per document.
I gave him a different procedure.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:36:41 +1100, "Jezebel"
wrote:

Instead of DATE fields, use CREATEDATE.


"Walt G" wrote in message
...
I wish to have the dates I insert in my document *not* updated so I can
see
when the different sections were written. On the Insert Date & Time tab
I
have unchecked 'update automatically'. Yet every time I, for example,
change
from normal view to page view, all the dates are updated to the current
day's date. How can I stop this?





--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org