Date not being updated in Word 2004

[Tim]

Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is related to me having upgraded to Tiger or not, but
now is the first time I've noticed it anyway.

Just wondering if anybody else has noticed this?

I never shutdown my computer, and typically, I often leave apps open too.

Anyway, I was typing some stuff in Word 2004 earlier, and I went to type in
the date, and the auto-text pop up suggested a date that was two days
earlier - i.e. The date I launched word.

I've tested this now by manually changing the date also, and the same
occurs.

It seems that word stores the date as from whenever it is launched rather
than looking at the system time. This might have implications for document
tracking etc. (The same does not happen in Entourage however)

Has anybody else noticed this, or can anybody else verify it?

Screenshot here:
http://homepage.mac.com/tod/word.png

Tim

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Has anybody else noticed this, or can anybody else verify it?

Yup. It's worked that way since at least Word98.

 

[Tim]

Ar an 06/05/2005 04:10, scríobh JE McGimpsey:

Yup. It's worked that way since at least Word98.

Oops, my bad. And I've used Word since version 4! Never noticed that until
now. I'd consider it a bug.

Thanks,

Tim

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I'd consider it a bug.

Me too.

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

Me too.

Sounds like a fine example of MS's attention to bug fixes.

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[JE McGimpsey]

Sounds like a fine example of MS's attention to bug fixes.

Or perhaps an issue that never got much user attention...