[Chris Stammers]

Hello,

I am using Word 2002 and I have a problem with the { DATE } field. Our data
source is an AS400 platform that doesn't contain the date a record was
created therefore I have been using the following: { DATE \@ "d" \*ordinal }
{ DATE \@ "MMMM yyyy }. This is OK however we have an automatic scanning
facility which is used to recall letters if a customer wants a copy. This has
to have the original date the letter was produced and unfortunately, the
above field will always show the current days date. Is there a field switch I
can use to hardcode the date the letters are generated through the merge? I
have tried CREATEDATE and SAVEDATE; CREATEDATE only ever returns the date the
document was created (obviously, perhaps). SAVEDATE would be prone to
changing if something in the document changes after it has been opened. Any
suggestions?

Thanks,
Chris