why does wrord change the origianl date when I open a saved doc

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I assume that the reason is that you have inserted a date field which shows
the system date. What you need to do is change those date fields for
createdate fields - ALT+F9 change { DATE } or { TIME \@ "d MMM yyyy" } to
{ CREATEDATE \@ "d MMM yyyy" } then F9 and ALT+F9 - and change the date in
your letterhead template so that future letters based on it show the correct
dates. The switch \@ "d MMM yyyy" may be different at your location.

See http://www.gmayor.com/stop_automatic_date_update.htm

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Press Alt+F9 to display the DATE field code it should start like {Date, type
the word CREATE in front of DATE with no space {CREATEDATE.
Press Alt+F9 to toggle back then press F9 to update the field.

Hope this helps,
 
Thank you so much for your help!! I am not the original poster, but I sure
did benefit from your response. It was a huge help to me at work where it
was imperative that we print out documents with the original dates. Without
your post, I would never have been able to figure our how to make that happen.
Take care and thanks again.
 

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