auto-updated date

[Ken Stone]

If I have a letterhead template that creates a document with the date in
auto-updated fashion, but I want to save the document with the date on
which it is written. I do not want the date updated every time that I
subsequently open the document. How to do this?

thanks in advance for this and other useful advice received on this
board.
Ken

 

[Clive Huggan]

Ken,

Thanks for your kind words.

If you choose Insert menu -> Date and time, you'll see -- in the window that
opens -- a check-box with "Update automatically". Make sure it's empty.

If you ever want to have a toolbar that gives various options for updating /
non-updating dates in various formats, take a look at appendix D of my notes
on the way I use Word, called "Bend Word to your Will", at
www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/Bend/BendWord.htm


-- Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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[Arno Wouters]

If you choose Insert menu -> Date and time, you'll see -- in the window that
opens -- a check-box with "Update automatically". Make sure it's empty.

This gives you the date of creation of the *template* in any document
based on the template.

If you want a template that inserts in any document based on it the
date of creation of that *document*, choose Insert menu -> Field.
Select -- in the window that appears-- CreateDate (under the category
"Date and Time"). You can choose the format of the date under
options.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Arno,

Thank you very much for pointing out my error; I should have looked up my
notes before replying!

Ken,

You might find some interest in some notes about putting on a toolbar a
variety of date formats ready to be inserted. They are in appendix D of the
notes on the way I use Word, called "Bend Word to your Will", at
www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/Bend/BendWord.htm

-- Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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