Date in letter

[Jim]

Whenever I look at an old dated letter, once I click on the file, the letter
now has today's date rather than the original date. How do I stop this date
change.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

The keyboard shortcut for Insert Date inserts an automatically updating date
field, {DATE}, so if that was used in creating the doc, you get date
changes.

To fix old docs, select the field, toggle field codes on the right-click
menu, and change the DATE field to CREATEDATE.

For the future, you could make the {CREATEDATE} field into an AutoText entry
and assign it a shortcut.

For more information, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm

DM