Auto Dates

[Guest]

I have a co-worker who insists that before we upgraded from Office 2000 to
Office 2003, her Word documents did not change the dates when she opened
them. I tried to explain that since they are DATE fields, that the current
date will always display in them. Is there an Options setting that allows
you to turn off Autoupdate? For example, in Excel, the system will (can)
prompt you when you open a document if you want it to update links etc.

I explained to her that she will need to change each date field to either
the CREATEDATE or the LASTSAVED date to show the correct date she wants. Does
this seem like the only option she has?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

You have correctly explained the options for existing documents. For the
future, she could set up an AutoText entry with a properly formatted
CreateDate field or a template that has such a field built-in.

See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the
different kinds of datefields and how to format them.

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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