[sub rosa]

Word 2003, its getting very frustrating that the date changes in my saved
documents, especially for printing purposes. How do I turn off this feature?

Thanks,

Matt

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Press Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of Field Codes and change

{ DATE }

to

{ CREATEDATE }

You should do that in the template from which you create the documents so
that the create date will be used in all future documents.

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"sub rosa" sub wrote in message
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Word 2003, its getting very frustrating that the date changes in my saved
documents, especially for printing purposes. How do I turn off this
feature?

Thanks,

Matt

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Matt

sub rosa wrote:
Word 2003, its getting very frustrating that the date changes in my saved
documents, especially for printing purposes. How do I turn off this feature?

You don't! DATE always shows the date of the current Word session.

But you can certainly input the date in another way:

- you can type it as raw text
- you can insert it as raw text over the dialog (Insert | Date)
- you can insert it dynamically but lock the field
- you can insert another field that suits you better: apart from DATE,
there is SAVEDATE, PRINTDATE, CREATEDATE ...

HTH
Robert
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