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If I have a Word document with a date in it when I reopen it the date is set
to the current date. How do I correct that?
 
Alpo,

Unless you change the default, when you use Insert>Date and Time to insert a
date in a Word document then you are inserting a "Date" field. A "Date'
field always displays the system date, or most likely today's date. You
need to change the "Date" field to a "CreateDate" field. Right click the
field and select toggle field codes. Change { Date } to { CreateDate }.

To insert a CreateDate in the future, click Insert>Date and Time and uncheck
"update automatically."
 
Note that clearing "Update automatically" will not cause Word to insert a
CreateDate field; it will insert plain text. The difference is that if you
insert plain text today, it has today's date, but if you insert a CreateDate
field in on old document, it will insert the date the file was created.

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

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You are using a DATE or TIME field rather than a CREATEDATE field. This
field should be put in the original template if possible.

In the document in question, press Alt-F9 to display field codes. Then
change the field to a CREATEDATE field, press F9 and then Alt-F9.

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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