File date display annoyance

S

Serena

Every time I open an old file (record letter mail out to third parties) the date of the letter automatically opens to the current date instead of the historical date when the letter was made. It freaks me out because if I have to print for record reasons the letter do not show the correct date of when it was made. As a matter of fact I need the letter for legal reasons

I searched through all the editing, tools, property, there is no help on how to correct this. I do not want automatic updates, if I had wanted a new version of the same letter, I would have used "file, save as" option

HOW DO I CORRECT THIS SITUATION?
 
M

macropod

Select the date field in the old document and press Shift-F9. You shoul
see something like:
{DATE}
Prefix 'DATE' with 'CREATE', so that you get:
{CREATEDATE}
and press F9 to update.

This will force your document to display the date it was create
instead of the current date.

When iserting dates in future, pick the CREATEDATE option vi
Insert|Field. Other options are also available, such as 'SAVEDATE'
for when a document was last saved - and 'PRINTDATE' - for when
document was last printed.

Cheer
 
S

Stefan Blom

Press ALT+F9 to reveal field codes in the document. You will probably
see TIME or DATE (within braces) instead of the date that keeps
updating.

Instead of TIME (or DATE), type CREATEDATE, click F9 to update the
display, and then click ALT+F9 again in order to hide the field codes.

From now on, you'll see the creation date of the file.

--
Stefan Blom


Serena said:
Every time I open an old file (record letter mail out to third
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parties) the date of the letter automatically opens to the current
date instead of the historical date when the letter was made. It
freaks me out because if I have to print for record reasons the letter
do not show the correct date of when it was made. As a matter of fact
I need the letter for legal reasons.
I searched through all the editing, tools, property, there is no
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help on how to correct this. I do not want automatic updates, if I
had wanted a new version of the same letter, I would have used "file,
save as" option.
 
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