Question regarding date fields within a Word template

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Duncan Edment

I have a template word document that consists of a couple
of tables, into which employees would type infomration.
In the footer, for the purposes of ISO accreditation, I
need to record details of Version Number, Date Last
Updated, Updated by Who etc.

Here is my problem. What field would I use to create
the 'Date Last Updated' field in the footer? This date
should reflect the date on which the template has been
updated, not the date on which the form was completed, on-
line, by an employee.

Hope I've got my point over and that you understand it.
Also hope that this is the right place to ask. If not,
let me know.

Rgds

Duncan
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Obviously, this would be the SaveDate of the template. Unfortunately, this
cannot be accessed by a field in the document (a SaveDate field there would
reflect the Modified date of the document). So what you need is to store the
template SaveDate (as text) in a custom document property in the template.
This would be propagated to the document and could be accessed with a
DocProperty field. You can update the property manually, but it would be
better to do it with a macro. A macro named FileSave could add this to the
Save operation. For instructions on creating such a macro (if others don't
jump in here), you might want to post in one of the Word VBA NGs.
 
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