How do I keep the inserted date from being updated in a Word doc?

[Guest]

Though I do not check the update box in Insert, Date and time, every time I
reopen a document with an inserted date, the date changes to the current one.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

The keyboard shortcut for Insert Date, and the icon on the header/footer
toolbar insert an automatically updating date field, {DATE}, so if either of
those were used in creating the doc, you get date changes.

To fix old docs, select the field, toggle field codes on the right-click
menu (or hit alt-F9), and change the DATE field to CREATEDATE.

For more information, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm

For the future, you could make the {CREATEDATE} field into an AutoText entry
and assign it a shortcut.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm

The status of the box in Insert | Date and Time applies *only* to the date
that is inserted right then, it does not act like a setting that turns
anything on or off.