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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / October 2007Is there a date field that will give the date a document was merge
When I go back to open a merged document, I want to see the date it was actually merged, not the current date or the date the main document was created. In other words, if I 'Merge to a new Document' I want a date field that gives the resulting document the 'date of merging', that doesn't update when I go back to look at it in the future. Please help. I am using MS Word 2003. I had read your article at: http://www.gmayor.com/stop_automatic_date_update.htm prior to asking my question, but wasn't able to make CREATEDATE change to a new date when I used it on a later date (by changing the date in my computer), but I wasn't using a Document Template. Is that my problem? I should save my main document as a template, then each time it is opened to create a new mail merge it will use that day's date (merge date) rather than the create date of the template? > When I go back to open a merged document, I want to see the date it was > actually merged, not the current date or the date the main document was [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Please help. I am using MS Word 2003. When merging date fields, the merge behaves differently with DATE and CREATEDATE fields. With date fields the date field is retained across the merge so if you merge to a new document that new document will have an updated field/. If you use a createdate field in the merge document then the field is converted to text so the merged document always displays the created date. The created date is of course the date the merged document was created, so to change that date to the present date to complete the merge, save the merge document using SaveAs to save it with the same name. That will give you a new creation date (today). Update the field and re-merge.  Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > I had read your article at: > http://www.gmayor.com/stop_automatic_date_update.htm [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >> Please help. I am using MS Word 2003. Thank you, kind sir. > When merging date fields, the merge behaves differently with DATE and > CREATEDATE fields. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > >> > >> Please help. I am using MS Word 2003. You are welcome :) Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Thank you, kind sir. > [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] >>>> >>>> Please help. I am using MS Word 2003. |
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