create date & templates

[Guest]

I'm creating a template in Word 2003. In the footer, I want to insert create
date field. When I've done this before, each new template begins with a date
of zero (00:00:00). When I save and name it to create a document, the current
date is displayed.

For some reason the template has the current date in it and does not say
00:00:00 as I would have expected. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Guest]

Please ignore this request. I've just figured out what I did wrong. I should
have chosen 'save date' fiedl and not 'create date' field.

 

[Guest]

I've just figured out what I was doing wrong. I should have chosen 'save
date' not 'create date' field.

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Jackie

I've just figured out what I was doing wrong. I should have chosen 'save
date' not 'create date' field.

BTW, if you want to _change_ this "00...", then you can use an IF-field
which tests whether SAVEDATE shows this "00..." and inserts a normal
DATE field, else it shows SAVEDATE.

HTH
Robert

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The template will contain the date it was created; documents based on the
template will have the date they were created.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

How will this help? You'll still have the date the template was saved (which
is very likely the same date on which it was created).

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[Charles Kenyon]

The CreateDate field gives a date upon document creation; the SaveDate field
only gives one when it is saved. I often print documents before I save them.
Bad habit.
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[Guest]

Hi Suzanne

It doesn't strangely enough. It saves the template as 00:00:00 and then
documents based on the template with the current date, which I find very
useful for on-going work.

 

[Guest]

When I create the template with savedate it logs a date of 00:00:00. Then
subsequent documents have the current date. Perhaps it's just me but I like
my templates to have no date recorded. The template using 'createdate',
however, does have the current date and that never changes. Pretty useless, I
think, when you want to keep track of the date a document was modified.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, you can have as many different date fields in a document or template
as you like, and of course those statistics are also available from File |
Properties.

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