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rcir88 - 27 Apr 2007 02:08 GMT

I want to use a date field to be inserted in a Word template that when opened
to produce a regular document supplies the current date. This date would not
change with subsequent opening or saving of the document. I notice in the
fields supplied by MS under the Insert menu, the fields "date" and
createdate". What is the difference and would one of them accomplish what
I'm trying to do? I thought this would be easily found in help, but it
wasn't.

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Graham Mayor - 27 Apr 2007 07:42 GMT

A Date field displays the system date from the PC. A Createdate field
displays the date the document was created (or saved using the SavedAs
option). The createdate in the template will always be the date the template
was created, but documents created from that template will show their
creation dates.

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> I want to use a date field to be inserted in a Word template that
> when opened to produce a regular document supplies the current date.
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> would one of them accomplish what I'm trying to do? I thought this
> would be easily found in help, but it wasn't.

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