Date fields in Word

[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.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The alternatives for new documents are to insert the date as text eg with a
macro

Sub InsertUSFormatDate()
Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="MMMM d, yyyy",
InsertAsField:=False
End Sub

or convert the date field to text before it has had the opportunity to
update (CTRL+SHIFT+F9).


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