Dynamicaly get current date to staically store in merge documnet

[helen]

This is a nice place to get practical help. I wish I can get some help for this

I created a merge document. There was a bookmark for automatically fill in date with mm/dd/yyyy format. I did this by using "Ask" filed once to get dynamically date each time for tons of new merge document while I run merge document. But now I want to use macro to achieve this. I wish I can merge document using the current date, but the date kept no changing by system once the date in the merged document, also if I merge a new document on other dates, it also get its current date to save the date permenatly to new document. I do not know how to achieve this by VB in Word 2002. Thanks!

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Save the mailmerge main document as a template and use a { CREATEDATE }
field in it. Then when you want to execute a merge, use File>New to create
a new document from the template and it will have the current date inserted
into it and that date will not change.

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

This is a nice place to get practical help. I wish I can get some help for this.

I created a merge document. There was a bookmark for automatically fill in

date with mm/dd/yyyy format. I did this by using "Ask" filed once to get
dynamically date each time for tons of new merge document while I run merge
document. But now I want to use macro to achieve this. I wish I can merge
document using the current date, but the date kept no changing by system
once the date in the merged document, also if I merge a new document on
other dates, it also get its current date to save the date permenatly to new
document. I do not know how to achieve this by VB in Word 2002. Thanks!