Disable update of date field 5tac3 20.04.2006 23:51:01 Hello, I have hundreds of Word documents that have been created and the {date} field will always change to today's date when those documents are opened. I also have twenty machines on the network that have Word installed that this happens on as well. Is there a way to disable Word from updating only the {date} field in the hundreds of documents so that if the user views or prints out the document they will see a date from the past and not the current date? Stacey

Re: Disable update of date field "Charles Kenyon" <wordfaq[ at ]nospam.addbalance.com> 21.04.2006 15:02:26 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). In the document in question, press Alt-F9 to display field codes. Then change the field to a CREATEDATE field, press F9 and then Alt-F9. See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the different kinds of datefields and how to format them. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense lawyer site: http://addbalance.com. --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "5tac3" <5tac3[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:59AF3403-4B82-4432-839F-2C7F9C10FED8[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hello, > I have hundreds of Word documents that have been created and the {date} > field will always change to today's date when those documents are opened. > I > also have twenty machines on the network that have Word installed that > this > happens on as well. Is there a way to disable Word from updating only the > {date} field in the hundreds of documents so that if the user views or > prints > out the document they will see a date from the past and not the current > date? > Stacey

Re: Disable update of date field 5tac3 21.04.2006 21:27:02 Thank you for trying to answer my question Charles. I've sifted through the FAQs and the links listed in them already and didn't find the answer to my question. Hence my post. However, I could've missed something. Is there a more appropriate (managed) newsgroup that I should post this to? Stacey "Charles Kenyon" wrote: [Quoted Text] > 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). > > In the document in question, press Alt-F9 to display field codes. Then > change the field to a CREATEDATE field, press F9 and then Alt-F9. > > See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the > different kinds of datefields and how to format them. > > -- > > Charles Kenyon > > Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word > > Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of > Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide > > See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! > > My criminal defense lawyer site: http://addbalance.com. > --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- > This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies > and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn > from my ignorance and your wisdom. > "5tac3" <5tac3[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:59AF3403-4B82-4432-839F-2C7F9C10FED8[ at ]microsoft.com... > > Hello, > > I have hundreds of Word documents that have been created and the {date} > > field will always change to today's date when those documents are opened. > > I > > also have twenty machines on the network that have Word installed that > > this > > happens on as well. Is there a way to disable Word from updating only the > > {date} field in the hundreds of documents so that if the user views or > > prints > > out the document they will see a date from the past and not the current > > date? > > Stacey > > >

Re: Disable update of date field "Charles Kenyon" <wordfaq[ at ]nospam.addbalance.com> 23.04.2006 03:33:30 Other than changing the DATE or TIME field to a CREATEDATE field there is no way to do what you want. Word is doing what you told it to do. If you want it to do something different, you need to tell it to do something different. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "5tac3" <5tac3[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3525EF1C-53CB-464B-88C7-9A645FF2EFA4[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Thank you for trying to answer my question Charles. I've sifted through > the > FAQs and the links listed in them already and didn't find the answer to my > question. Hence my post. However, I could've missed something. Is there > a > more appropriate (managed) newsgroup that I should post this to? > Stacey > > "Charles Kenyon" wrote: > >> 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). >> >> In the document in question, press Alt-F9 to display field codes. Then >> change the field to a CREATEDATE field, press F9 and then Alt-F9. >> >> See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the >> different kinds of datefields and how to format them. >> >> -- >> >> Charles Kenyon >> >> Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word >> >> Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of >> Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide >> >> See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! >> >> My criminal defense lawyer site: http://addbalance.com. >> --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- >> This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies >> and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn >> from my ignorance and your wisdom. >> "5tac3" <5tac3[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:59AF3403-4B82-4432-839F-2C7F9C10FED8[ at ]microsoft.com... >> > Hello, >> > I have hundreds of Word documents that have been created and the {date} >> > field will always change to today's date when those documents are >> > opened. >> > I >> > also have twenty machines on the network that have Word installed that >> > this >> > happens on as well. Is there a way to disable Word from updating only >> > the >> > {date} field in the hundreds of documents so that if the user views or >> > prints >> > out the document they will see a date from the past and not the current >> > date? >> > Stacey >> >> >>