Date Code in Word 2003

[Guest]

I have a user that opened Word documents today and the date code was
automatically inserted into them. He has never used the date code feature in
any of his documents, and opts to type in the date manually so that when he
opens an older document it has the date it was originally created. Has
anyone else ever experienced this? Does anyone know what is causing it and
how to fix it?

Thank you very much.

 

[Greg]

Diane,

All documents are based on a template. Your user needs to open the
document template and delete the date code. If the template is used
for creating dated correspondence then I suggest changing the { Date }
code to {CreateDate} this inserts the date the document was created
and eliminates the problem of the date being updated to the current
date when it is opened in the future.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have a user that opened Word documents today and the date code was
automatically inserted into them. He has never used the date code feature in
any of his documents, and opts to type in the date manually so that when he
opens an older document it has the date it was originally created. Has
anyone else ever experienced this? Does anyone know what is causing it and
how to fix it?

Thank you very much.

Try the fix at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm