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Why does the original date change upon opening a document?
I recently switched from Word 2000 to Word 2003. I noticed that documents I
had originally saved (example: September 21, 2004 was date on letter) are showing up as today (example: December 16, 2004) even though I had already saved the letter, and just had to open it to re-print. I have already cleared the UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY box, however, some documents' date remains the origination date, and some change to today's date. Any ideas? |
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Right-click the date and click "Toggle field codes". Add the word CREATE
before the word DATE inside the brackets. The DATE code tells Word to show the date of your computer, which if correct, will always be today. The field code CREATEDATE inserts a fixed date of when the document was created and won't change. When done, right-click and select "Toggle field codes" again to go back to the actual value for the code. -- Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint) Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP www.pttinc.com Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/ Check out Word FAQs at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/index.htm "K.Local773" wrote in message ... I recently switched from Word 2000 to Word 2003. I noticed that documents I had originally saved (example: September 21, 2004 was date on letter) are showing up as today (example: December 16, 2004) even though I had already saved the letter, and just had to open it to re-print. I have already cleared the UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY box, however, some documents' date remains the origination date, and some change to today's date. Any ideas? |
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that you also will need to right-click and select
"Update Field", or press F9 to get it to change back to the date you want. -- Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint) Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP www.pttinc.com Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/ Check out Word FAQs at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/index.htm "K.Local773" wrote in message ... I recently switched from Word 2000 to Word 2003. I noticed that documents I had originally saved (example: September 21, 2004 was date on letter) are showing up as today (example: December 16, 2004) even though I had already saved the letter, and just had to open it to re-print. I have already cleared the UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY box, however, some documents' date remains the origination date, and some change to today's date. Any ideas? |
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Do I have to do this for Every Document that is having the problem? Or will
it "mass-fix" the problem? "Bill Foley" wrote: Sorry, I forgot to mention that you also will need to right-click and select "Update Field", or press F9 to get it to change back to the date you want. -- Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint) Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP www.pttinc.com Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/ Check out Word FAQs at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/index.htm "K.Local773" wrote in message ... I recently switched from Word 2000 to Word 2003. I noticed that documents I had originally saved (example: September 21, 2004 was date on letter) are showing up as today (example: December 16, 2004) even though I had already saved the letter, and just had to open it to re-print. I have already cleared the UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY box, however, some documents' date remains the origination date, and some change to today's date. Any ideas? |
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This "DATE" field is unique in each document. It really isn't a STYLE that
can be updated automatically. I'm sure someone out there might have a macro that could search through a folder and find a DATE field and replace it with a CREATEDATE field, save it, close it, and move on to another one. I know of a "Batch and Replace" macro but I'm not sure if it will work for fields. Maybe someone else might have a solution. Until then, guess you will need to open each one. SORRY! -- Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint) Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP www.pttinc.com Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/ Check out Word FAQs at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/index.htm "K.Local773" wrote in message ... Do I have to do this for Every Document that is having the problem? Or will it "mass-fix" the problem? "Bill Foley" wrote: Sorry, I forgot to mention that you also will need to right-click and select "Update Field", or press F9 to get it to change back to the date you want. -- Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint) Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP www.pttinc.com Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/ Check out Word FAQs at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/index.htm "K.Local773" wrote in message ... I recently switched from Word 2000 to Word 2003. I noticed that documents I had originally saved (example: September 21, 2004 was date on letter) are showing up as today (example: December 16, 2004) even though I had already saved the letter, and just had to open it to re-print. I have already cleared the UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY box, however, some documents' date remains the origination date, and some change to today's date. Any ideas? |
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The batch macro will work if the field construction is displayed rather than
the result (ALT+F9). Replace DATE with CREATEDATE -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Bill Foley wrote: This "DATE" field is unique in each document. It really isn't a STYLE that can be updated automatically. I'm sure someone out there might have a macro that could search through a folder and find a DATE field and replace it with a CREATEDATE field, save it, close it, and move on to another one. I know of a "Batch and Replace" macro but I'm not sure if it will work for fields. Maybe someone else might have a solution. Until then, guess you will need to open each one. SORRY! "K.Local773" wrote in message ... Do I have to do this for Every Document that is having the problem? Or will it "mass-fix" the problem? "Bill Foley" wrote: Sorry, I forgot to mention that you also will need to right-click and select "Update Field", or press F9 to get it to change back to the date you want. -- Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint) Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP www.pttinc.com Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/ Check out Word FAQs at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/index.htm "K.Local773" wrote in message ... I recently switched from Word 2000 to Word 2003. I noticed that documents I had originally saved (example: September 21, 2004 was date on letter) are showing up as today (example: December 16, 2004) even though I had already saved the letter, and just had to open it to re-print. I have already cleared the UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY box, however, some documents' date remains the origination date, and some change to today's date. Any ideas? |
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Didn't think of that. COOL idea!
Now, you ready to modify the code to toggle all field codes so "DATE" shows, run the Find/Replace, then toggle it back? HA! -- Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint) Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP www.pttinc.com Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/ Check out Word FAQs at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/index.htm "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The batch macro will work if the field construction is displayed rather than the result (ALT+F9). Replace DATE with CREATEDATE -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Bill Foley wrote: This "DATE" field is unique in each document. It really isn't a STYLE that can be updated automatically. I'm sure someone out there might have a macro that could search through a folder and find a DATE field and replace it with a CREATEDATE field, save it, close it, and move on to another one. I know of a "Batch and Replace" macro but I'm not sure if it will work for fields. Maybe someone else might have a solution. Until then, guess you will need to open each one. SORRY! "K.Local773" wrote in message ... Do I have to do this for Every Document that is having the problem? Or will it "mass-fix" the problem? "Bill Foley" wrote: Sorry, I forgot to mention that you also will need to right-click and select "Update Field", or press F9 to get it to change back to the date you want. -- Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint) Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP www.pttinc.com Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/ Check out Word FAQs at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/index.htm "K.Local773" wrote in message ... I recently switched from Word 2000 to Word 2003. I noticed that documents I had originally saved (example: September 21, 2004 was date on letter) are showing up as today (example: December 16, 2004) even though I had already saved the letter, and just had to open it to re-print. I have already cleared the UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY box, however, some documents' date remains the origination date, and some change to today's date. Any ideas? |
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Long term, the solution is to fix the problem as you create the document.
Use templates that contain CreateDate fields in the appropriate places. Create AutoText entries that have a CreateDate field that you can insert from the keyboard or add to your Insert menu. Do not use the Insert Date command. 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. "K.Local773" wrote in message ... Do I have to do this for Every Document that is having the problem? Or will it "mass-fix" the problem? "Bill Foley" wrote: Sorry, I forgot to mention that you also will need to right-click and select "Update Field", or press F9 to get it to change back to the date you want. -- Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint) Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP www.pttinc.com Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/ Check out Word FAQs at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/index.htm "K.Local773" wrote in message ... I recently switched from Word 2000 to Word 2003. I noticed that documents I had originally saved (example: September 21, 2004 was date on letter) are showing up as today (example: December 16, 2004) even though I had already saved the letter, and just had to open it to re-print. I have already cleared the UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY box, however, some documents' date remains the origination date, and some change to today's date. Any ideas? |
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