disable field auto update

[Guest]

found suggestions in this forum on how to disable auto updating of date
fields in my own documents, but is there some way to disable the auto update
of a date/time field in a document that someone else sent me when i am
opening it for the first time? something other than getting whoever created
the document to insert date as locked field, or just as data and not a field.


tx for suggestions.

 

[Jay Freedman]

If the result of the field is supposed to be the date the document was
created, display the field code and change its keyword from DATE to
CREATEDATE. That will always work, no matter how much later you do it.

If it's supposed to show some other date, remove the field and type the date
as plain text. You can't do that until you open the document, though, so if
you don't know what the date should have been, you're out of luck. There is
no way to suppress the update of a date field on opening the document.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Peter Jamieson]

If you really need to, you may be able to see the original date/time by
a. creating a new blank document
b. using Insert|File to insert the document containing the date field

Peter Jamieson

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Or just Ctrl+Z immediately after opening the document if Update Fields is
listed in the Undo list.

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

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