Not an Outlook issue since the document is opened in Word.
Anyway; Why not simply type the date?
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"patrick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have sent a letter as a microsoft word document in an e-mail
> attachment.Unfortunately it keeps showing the current date and not the day
> it
> was sent.Is there anything I can do to change it.