Fax Template

[Sarah]

My company is revising the fax coversheet. We'd like to auto-fill form fields
for the date, but is there any way that we can save the document and later
receive it with the original date, not the date reopened?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Use a CreateDate field instead of Date. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm

 

[Charles Kenyon]

You are using a DATE or TIME field rather than a CREATEDATE field. This
field should be put in the original template if possible (instead of
inserting using the keyboard shortcut or header/footer toolbar button). That
way, when a new document is created based on the template, the date will
update.

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


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