After reinstalling Word 2003, the dates changed in earlier pages

[Guest]

Due to a hard drive failure I had to reinstall Office 2003. Previously I
entered the date by using a macro and this recoded (say) in letters the date
written. After saving this date remained as entered. Since reinstalling all
the dates change to the day's date. So all my past letters now carry today's
date.
Whay has happened and how can I correct it?

 

[Graham Mayor]

If the dates have changed, you have them inserted as DATE (or TIME) fields.
Change them to CREATEDATE fields and update them to show the creation dates.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Your macro undoubtedly inserted the CreateDate field. You can do this just
as easily with an AutoText entry, to which you can assign a keyboard
shortcut, or you can use AutoComplete if you give it a four-character unique
name.

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

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