Word date switches

Is there a switch I can add to the "Today" date format
that will keep the date from advancing once the document
is created...."create" date is not what I want.

I want the user to have "todays" date fill in a date field
when they open/create a new document off a template. When
the document is opened subsequently, I want the date to
remain static and not advance to the current "opening"
date. Is this a switch or some other method??

Best regards.....

Jonathan
Tue Feb 01 10:58:37 CST 2005


"lots of questions" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a switch I can add to the "Today" date format
> that will keep the date from advancing once the document
> is created...."create" date is not what I want.
>
> I want the user to have "todays" date fill in a date field
> when they open/create a new document off a template. When
> the document is opened subsequently, I want the date to
> remain static and not advance to the current "opening"
> date. Is this a switch or some other method??
>
> Best regards.....

You really do want the CREATEDATE field. When a new document is created from
a template, the field will be set to today's date and will stay there when
you re-open the document later.

In order to make this work, you need to save your original as a Word
template, and have new documents created off it.


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Jonathan West - Word MVP
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Charles
Tue Feb 01 11:28:31 CST 2005

You are using a DATE or TIME field rather than a CREATEDATE field. This
field should be put in the original template if possible. I know you said
you didn't want the CREATEDATE field, but that is what this field does when
in a template - it inserts the date of _document_ creation!

In the document in question, press Alt-F9 to display field codes. Then
change the field to a CREATEDATE field, press F9 and then Alt-F9.

See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the
different kinds of datefields and how to format them.

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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"lots of questions" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2fcb01c5087d$b8dbbd70$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Is there a switch I can add to the "Today" date format
> that will keep the date from advancing once the document
> is created...."create" date is not what I want.
>
> I want the user to have "todays" date fill in a date field
> when they open/create a new document off a template. When
> the document is opened subsequently, I want the date to
> remain static and not advance to the current "opening"
> date. Is this a switch or some other method??
>
> Best regards.....