why do previously saved documents open with current date?

[Guest]

I have a couple of saved documents that are important but the date the
document was created keeps changing to the current date when I open it. Why
is this and how can I stop it from happening?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have a couple of saved documents that are important but the date the
document was created keeps changing to the current date when I open
it. Why is this and how can I stop it from happening?

The dates are fields. Right-click one and select Toggle Field Codes, and
you'll something like {DATE \@ "M/d/yyyy"}. Change the word DATE to
CREATEDATE. Right-click and select Update Field to get the date the document
was created.

In future documents, wherever you want the date to always be the creation
date, use the Insert > Field dialog and choose the CreateDate field, instead
of using the Insert > Date dialog. If you're making a template, you can
still use CreateDate -- each new document based on the template will show
the document's creation date, not the template's date.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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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