let's say i start writing a word document on march 5, 2005 and have this date
within the body of the letter. i print and send this document to whomever it
was going......several months lateri open this document again, and now it
shows the current date, not the date that was origionally typed into the body
of the letter. why is ms word 2000 doing this? is the customary and/or usual
operation of ms word 2000.

Change the DATE field to CREATEDATE.



"anthony" wrote in message
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let's say i start writing a word document on march 5, 2005 and have this
date
within the body of the letter. i print and send this document to whomever
it
was going......several months lateri open this document again, and now it
shows the current date, not the date that was origionally typed into the
body
of the letter. why is ms word 2000 doing this? is the customary and/or
usual
operation of ms word 2000.

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).

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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"anthony" wrote in message
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let's say i start writing a word document on march 5, 2005 and have this
date
within the body of the letter. i print and send this document to whomever
it
was going......several months lateri open this document again, and now it
shows the current date, not the date that was origionally typed into the
body
of the letter. why is ms word 2000 doing this? is the customary and/or
usual
operation of ms word 2000.