Date changing to current date when doc reopened

[Michele]

When I draft a letter and save it and then reopen it later, the date always
changes to the current date, even when I do not use the auto insert date. i
erase the date and put it in manually but it still happens.

 

[JR Hester]

Michelle,
sounds like you used teh insert date feature of Word. This inserts a current
field, which will update every time opened. Try replacing the current date
field with teh Create date field. HTH

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Note that the field that you need is CREATEDATE

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[Graham Mayor]

The reason is that you have inserted a date field which shows the system
date. What you need to do is change those date fields for createdate
fields - ALT+F9 change { DATE } or { TIME \@ "d MMM yyyy" } to { CREATEDATE
\@ "d MMM yyyy" } then F9 and ALT+F9 - and change the date in your
letterhead template so that future letters based on it show the correct
dates. The formatting switch \@ "d MMM yyyy" may be different at your
location.

See http://www.gmayor.com/stop_automatic_date_update.htm


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