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auto update (current date on old documents)
Every time I open a document it has the current date. I know that you can
turn this off but I don't know where. I believe it is auto update? |
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The keyboard shortcut for Insert Date, and the icon on the header/footer
toolbar insert an automatically updating date field, {DATE}, so if either of those were used in creating the doc, you get date changes. To fix old docs, select the field, toggle field codes on the right-click menu (or hit alt-F9), and change the DATE field to CREATEDATE. For more information, see he http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm For the future, you could make the {CREATEDATE} field into an AutoText entry and assign it a shortcut. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm On 5/10/05 10:30 PM, "kwjones" wrote: Every time I open a document it has the current date. I know that you can turn this off but I don't know where. I believe it is auto update? -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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You are using a DATE or TIME field rather than a CREATEDATE field. This
field should be put in the original template if possible (instead of inserting using the keyboard shortcut or header/footer toolbar button).Changing the autoupdate setting would only turn future insertions into text, it would have no effect on current documents. Again, though, long term putting the field into a template is superior. In the document in question, press Alt-F9 to display field codes. Then change the field to a CREATEDATE field, press F9 and then Alt-F9. See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the different kinds of datefields and how to format them. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "kwjones" wrote in message ... Every time I open a document it has the current date. I know that you can turn this off but I don't know where. I believe it is auto update? |
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