stop Word from updating the date everytime I open an old document

G

Guest

Everytime I open a saved Word document Word changes the date to the current
date, these are legal documents that I am opening and I do not want the date
to change.
thanks
 
G

Guest

great thanks, next silly Q, where do I find the 'date field' to change to
'createdate'
thanks again
 
G

Guest

again I thank you for your patience and help, but I am a bit of a techno
retard, I tried Alt F9 and nothing happened? might be best if I just accept
what is?
 
J

Jezebel

Reading Help on fields might be a better approach. Pressing Alt-F9 toggles
the display of field codes and field results (also available on Tools >
Options). Fields are instructions to Word to insert some automatic content.
Have a look at Insert > Fields for the list of possibles. In this case, if
you look at where the date is displayed in the document, press Alt-F9 and
the date display will change to { DATE ... }

Change 'DATE' to 'CREATEDATE'.
 

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