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Ted Leonard - 18 Jan 2004 05:55 GMT

I previously inquired as to how to add a date to a mail
merge document and recieved a response (which I very much
apprecate) telling of {CREATEDATE}. From my study of
{CREATEDATE} from the Word Help file this seems to be a
static date taken from the date the file is saved. I need
something I can place at the desired location in a mail
merge document which would cause the current date to be
inserted at this location when the letter is printed. Is
this possible?

Thanks again for any help.

Ted

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Greg Maxey - 18 Jan 2004 07:03 GMT

Ted,

Would a { PRINTDATE } field work for you?

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> I previously inquired as to how to add a date to a mail
> merge document and recieved a response (which I very much
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> Ted

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Graham Mayor - 18 Jan 2004 08:15 GMT

Createdate produces the date the document was created - not saved. Thats
SAVEDATE!
CREATEDATE should work - and would certainly work on merging to a new
document, before printing, which may be a plan. Merging to printer directly
should work also, but I cannot readily test it at present.

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> I previously inquired as to how to add a date to a mail
> merge document and recieved a response (which I very much
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> Ted

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS - 18 Jan 2004 09:27 GMT

Hi Ted,

OK, it turns out that the { CREATEDATE } field is destroyed by the merge
process. However, the { PRINTDATE } field that fellow MVP Greg Maxey has
suggested survives the process so that should work for you.

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>I previously inquired as to how to add a date to a mail
> merge document and recieved a response (which I very much
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> Ted

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