Updating date

[Kipper6]

I have a template which automatically puts a date in each time it is
opened which is great. The trouble is that when I save the document
and open up a day later the date has changed to the current date
whereas I want it to remain at the date when I originally created the
document. How do I get the date to stop updating after its first
insertion? I am using Vista and Word 2007. Thanks

Karen

 

[Beth Melton]

Open your template, press Alt+F9 to toggle the field codes. In your DATE
field, type "CREATE" in front of DATE. It should look something like,
CREATEDATE (no spaces). Press Alt+F9 to toggle off the field codes, select
the field and press F9 to update and test it. Note that the creation date
for the template will be the date it was created but your new documents will
have their own creation date when you create a new document based on the
template.

For previously created documents you can use the same steps and change the
DATE field to CREATEDATE.

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[Jay Freedman]

Right-click the date in any of these documents and choose Toggle Field
Codes. Change the word DATE to CREATEDATE. Right-click again and
choose Update Field.

To fix this for all future documents, make the same change in the
template.