Automatic updating of date

[Guest]

Does anyone else have this problem?
Even though I have no tick in the box update automatically, going through
Insert menu clicking on Date/Time. When you re-open the document the next
day it updates to the new todays date. This also happens if I use the
keyboard shortcut Alt+shift+D.

Is this a glitch we have to live with, if so, other than typing the date out
each time, is there anything else we can do?

 

[Graham Mayor]

For existing documents, select the field - press ALT+F9 - between the {}
field brackets change DATE or TIME to CREATEDATE. Press ALT+F9 the F9 to
update. The original date will be shown.

Use CREATEDATE fields in your letter templates

For random insertion of dates, ignore the Insert menu tool, re-assign the
keystroke shortcut to an autotext containing the createdate field
OR
to a macro

Sub InsertTodaysDate()
Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="MMMM d, yyyy",
InsertAsField:=False
End Sub

In the above example the format "MMMM d, yyyy" can be changed to reflect any
date format you like (except for superscripted ordinals, for which you need
a different approach - see http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm


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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

And note that Alt+Shift+D always inserts a DATE field regardless of your
setting in Insert | Date and Time.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thanks for your help, once I had played around with all your various ideas,
we came up with the keyboards shortcut that the staff are used to on Word
Perfect i.e. control+D and saved it as a macro with a field createdate in it.
Without your info I would never have got there, thanks again