Inserting Dates that do not change

[Guest]

I'm sure I'm missing something here, but I can't figure this one out. I
create documents in Word, using mail merge, which insert today's date. This
shows up in the mail merge file as the word "Date" inside braces. The
Problem: I save the documents I have created for future reference (using
the Merge to New Document option). But, when I open these documents later,
the date "updates" to show current date.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Change the DATE within the curly brackets to CREATEDATE.

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[Guest]

Thank you very much! That was certainly simple, wasn't it -- I just missed
it. I was looking at everything I could find on the DATE field code,
thinking that somewhere there was a switch that would make it "permanent."

It didn't occur to me to look for a completely seperate field code.