It probably inserts the date using a { DATE } field - open the document and
press Alt-F9 to see. If so, you could delete the fields and replace them by
the plain text date you want, or change the date field to { CREATEDATE } or
{ PRINTDATE } if either of those is the one you need.
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Peter Jamieson - Word MVP
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> We have a old word document, when we open it it changes
> the date to the current date we don't want the current
> date, we need it to keep the old (original date).