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MS Office Forum / Word / Word Errors / September 2007Date in a template
It's my understanding that using CREATEDATE allows me to have a date automatically entered in a document, and then holds that date when the document is printed at a later time. However, I want to use this in a template so that each time the template opens, the current date is used and then when I "save as" the document the created date will be static. Thanks for any insight! What you want will work but I think the part you are missing is that you create New documents based on your template, not open the template and use Save As. This way, when the new document is created it will have its own CreateDate which is what you are looking for. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook  SignatureWord FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ > It's my understanding that using CREATEDATE allows me to have a date > automatically entered in a document, and then holds that date when the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > then when I "save as" the document the created date will be static. > Thanks for any insight! But even if you use Save As the CREATEDATE will be updated. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > What you want will work but I think the part you are missing is that you > create New documents based on your template, not open the template and use [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > then when I "save as" the document the created date will be static. > > Thanks for any insight! Oh yeah, that's true since you are creating a new document. (What was I thinking?) Thanks for the catch, Suzanne. :-) Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook SignatureWord FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ > But even if you use Save As the CREATEDATE will be updated. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> Save As. This way, when the new document is created it will have its own >> CreateDate which is what you are looking for. >> > It's my understanding that using CREATEDATE allows me to have a date >> > automatically entered in a document, and then holds that date when the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> > then when I "save as" the document the created date will be static. >> > Thanks for any insight! Not meant to be interpreted as encouraging people to use Save As, mind you (but people do, anyway). <g> SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Oh yeah, that's true since you are creating a new document. (What was I > thinking?) Thanks for the catch, Suzanne. :-) [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > >> > then when I "save as" the document the created date will be static. > >> > Thanks for any insight! LOL Here's some encouragement for creating a new document based on a template instead of Save As: the CreateDate field will automatically update when creating a new document based on the template. You need to manually update it if you use Save As. (Maybe that will work? ;-) ) Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook SignatureWord FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ > Not meant to be interpreted as encouraging people to use Save As, mind you > (but people do, anyway). <g> >> Oh yeah, that's true since you are creating a new document. (What was I >> thinking?) Thanks for the catch, Suzanne. :-) >> > But even if you use Save As the CREATEDATE will be updated. >> >> What you want will work but I think the part you are missing is that > you [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > own >> >> CreateDate which is what you are looking for. |
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