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Help, When I right click on a date field....
and choose 'update', Word2003 doesn't return todays date but keeps the
date the same. If I click 'insert field' the applet shows the correct date but inserts the old date from the document. Insert date returns the correct date. This has been working well for the past year. I have updated office2003 and rebooted. Any help appreciated. Thanks Blackbag |
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Help, When I right click on a date field....
Is this definitely a { DATE } field and not (for example) a { CREATEDATE }
field? If you use Alt-F9 to show the underlying field code, what do you see:? Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... and choose 'update', Word2003 doesn't return todays date but keeps the date the same. If I click 'insert field' the applet shows the correct date but inserts the old date from the document. Insert date returns the correct date. This has been working well for the past year. I have updated office2003 and rebooted. Any help appreciated. Thanks Blackbag |
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Help, When I right click on a date field....
On Jun 25, 2:20 pm, wrote:
and choose 'update', Word2003 doesn't return todays date but keeps the date the same. If I click 'insert field' the applet shows the correct date but inserts the old date from the document. Insert date returns the correct date. This has been working well for the past year. I have updated office2003 and rebooted. Any help appreciated. Thanks Blackbag What I see is: {CREATEDATE \@"MMMM d, yyyy" \* MERGEFORMAT} BTW, If I save the file first, then it works. I'm sorry if I am too stupid to figure theis out. thanks |
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Help, When I right click on a date field....
What you probably need to do is use Alt-F9 to see the underlying field code
and delete the "CREATE" part. If you are creating your documents from a template that has a { CREATEDATE } field in it, then you need to modify the field in there as well so it's just a { DATE } field. If you're not aware of using a template, maybe we need to go a few steps back... Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... On Jun 25, 2:20 pm, wrote: and choose 'update', Word2003 doesn't return todays date but keeps the date the same. If I click 'insert field' the applet shows the correct date but inserts the old date from the document. Insert date returns the correct date. This has been working well for the past year. I have updated office2003 and rebooted. Any help appreciated. Thanks Blackbag What I see is: {CREATEDATE \@"MMMM d, yyyy" \* MERGEFORMAT} BTW, If I save the file first, then it works. I'm sorry if I am too stupid to figure theis out. thanks |
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Help, When I right click on a date field....
A Createdate field always displays the date the document was created. A
createdate field in the document template will allow you to create new documents from that template each with the (fixed) date they are created, while the date in the template always displays the date it ws created. Change this to Date if you want the date to update every time the document is opened (or use SaveAs to save the document which will update the creation date). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: On Jun 25, 2:20 pm, wrote: and choose 'update', Word2003 doesn't return todays date but keeps the date the same. If I click 'insert field' the applet shows the correct date but inserts the old date from the document. Insert date returns the correct date. This has been working well for the past year. I have updated office2003 and rebooted. Any help appreciated. Thanks Blackbag What I see is: {CREATEDATE \@"MMMM d, yyyy" \* MERGEFORMAT} BTW, If I save the file first, then it works. I'm sorry if I am too stupid to figure theis out. thanks |
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