Word 2002 Office XP doesn't have January 9, 2005 as an available .

[Guest]

This standard letter format for an inserted date does not show in the list of
available formats when the insert date and time button on the toolbar is used.

 

[Jezebel]

This standard letter format for an inserted date does not show in the list of
available formats when the insert date and time button on the toolbar is

used.

Yes, that's correct.

Assuming that you actually want to do that, use a field, eg:

{ CREATEDATE \@ "MMMM dd, yyyy" }