[Jan]

When I open an old file, today's date replaces the original date. How do I
turn this "feature" off?

[jlawson]

Sounds like whoever made the original document inserted a field in to
the doc to always display the current date. You can press alt+F9 to
see the field and erase it if you need to. The document has to be
unprotected if you do this.


Jan wrote:
When I open an old file, today's date replaces the original date. How do I
turn this "feature" off?

[Carol]

Open your template as a template and change the date field to a Create Date
field and that will resolve the problem.
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"Jan" wrote:

When I open an old file, today's date replaces the original date. How do I
turn this "feature" off?

[Graham Mayor]

It won't however resolve it for the existing documents. For those what you
need to do is change the date fields for createdate fields - ALT+F9 change
{DATE \@ "d MMM yyyy"}or {TIME \@ "d MMM yyyy"} to {CREATEDATE \@ "d MMM
yyyy"} then F9 and ALT+F9 - and change the date in your letterhead template
so that future letters based on it show the correct dates.

The switches \@ "d MMM yyyy" may be different at your location.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Carol wrote:
Open your template as a template and change the date field to a
Create Date field and that will resolve the problem.

When I open an old file, today's date replaces the original date.
How do I turn this "feature" off?