Fun with Fields Question

[Joseph McGuire]

I discovered the usefulness of fields a few days ago on this forum. As I
understand it the field {SAVEDATE} is supposed to show the date the document
was last saved. This could be highly useful if it is reliable, particularly
for documents that I keep mainly in electronic form. I created a document
with such a field along with {CREATEDATE} (including the date and time) a
few days ago . I have saved the document a few times since then. Today I
opened it, modified it, saved it and then opened it again a few seconds
later. The {SAVEDATE} was still the same as the date it was created
{CREATEDATE}even when I printed it. The correct date and time of the last
save appeared only when I right-clicked to Update the Field. Is something
wrong? Or does the updating only take place "manually?"


Joe McGuire
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See “The FILENAME field does not automatically update when you open a
document in Word 2002 or Word 2003” at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832897. Same evidently applies to the
date fields. Fields will update when you print, provided you have "Update
fields" checked on the Print tab of Tools | Options.

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

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[Pat Garard]

G'Day Joseph

The field is reliable, since it takes its data from the File
System.

Yes! It must be updated to reflect the changes (as do
all fields).

Check the following:
Tools>Options
Print (tab)
Printing options (Top section)
'Update fields' should be CHECKED.

 

[Joseph McGuire]

Thanks. I was actually working in Word 2000 when I noticed the problem.
Seems a bit odd that the functionality of fields by limiting updating to
manual intervention or printing.