How can I load curent dates into an existing Word document?

[Guest]

I need to repetitively pull up and re-print an existing Word document. How
can I put a 'place-holder' in the document (in about a half-dozen to a dozen
places) so that when I open it, it will retrieve the CURRENT date and place
it in the documents? I'm using Word 2003.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can use a DATE field, which you can insert using Insert | Date and Time
with the "Update automatically" box checked. Once you have selected your
default date format in this dialog, you can use Alt+Shift+D to insert a DATE
field in that format.

This will work okay provided you are really printing the exact same document
with no other changes. If you need to make any other changes, you'd do
better to save the document as a template with a CREATEDATE field; then each
new document you create based on the template will have its current date.

For more on date fields, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm

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

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