Computer help, Word ?

[SBjet]

I have a template, Professional Letter, that automatically puts today's date at the top.
The problem is that I've gone to open some old docs. and today's date is at the top, instead of the date the letter was written.
Thanks.

 

[rivermobster]

Sounds like you have a macro installed somewhere. It shouldnt be changing old docs.

Open the help file and search "macro".



p.s. just guesing here

 

[TrailerQueen]

I don't think there is anything you can do about it once you use a date field on a doc. It will open using the current date. I save important docs as a .pdf file for this very reason. You can't even use the file date as a reference, as soon as you open it the file date will change to the current date.

Agreed - we usually hard code the date (remove the date field and type in the date) once the letter is final or print to .pdf if we just want a paper trail for when a draft was completed.

It is strange, because not all fields update automatically like this. You have to click "update field" to update the file name field when you Save As...