Update Date

How do I insert a date field that will update every time the document is
opened?

Someone mentioned a template especially for the document.
But I don't know how to work it so that the date simply updates, rather than
constantly getting inserted so that if I open the document ten times, I have
ten dates written in it.

If either the SAVEDATE or PRINTDATE fields will not serve your purpose, then
you will need to use an autoopen macro that updates the fields in the
document

ActiveDocument.PrintPreview
ActiveDocument.ClosePrintPreview

should do it.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"SF" nospam@@@nospam wrote in message
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How do I insert a date field that will update every time the document is
opened?

Someone mentioned a template especially for the document.
But I don't know how to work it so that the date simply updates, rather
than constantly getting inserted so that if I open the document ten times,
I have ten dates written in it.

If you put a CreateDate field in your template and create new documents
based on the template, the date will update for each new document. If you
put a Date or Time field in your document or template, it will update each
time the document is opened.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on the
different kinds of datefields and how to format them.

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Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"SF" nospam@@@nospam wrote in message
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How do I insert a date field that will update every time the document is
opened?

Someone mentioned a template especially for the document.
But I don't know how to work it so that the date simply updates, rather
than constantly getting inserted so that if I open the document ten times,
I have ten dates written in it.

Let me explain my problem a little more clearly:

I have a title page for a novel.
In the upper left corner on 4 separate lines are my name, address, phone.
In the upper right corner on 3 lines are the genre description, word count
and date.

Now, how can I make a template that will update the date field on the 3rd
line down from the upper right hand corner?

Thanks in advance


"SF" nospam@@@nospam wrote in message
...
How do I insert a date field that will update every time the document is
opened?

Someone mentioned a template especially for the document.
But I don't know how to work it so that the date simply updates, rather
than constantly getting inserted so that if I open the document ten times,
I have ten dates written in it.

SF,

Use a DATE field with a date picture switch. For example this field will
update with the Day/Date/Time each time the document is opened or fields
updated:

{ Date \@ "DDDD, MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm:ss }

The field delimiters { } are entered with CTRL+F9

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

SF wrote:
Let me explain my problem a little more clearly:

I have a title page for a novel.
In the upper left corner on 4 separate lines are my name, address,
phone. In the upper right corner on 3 lines are the genre
description, word count and date.

Now, how can I make a template that will update the date field on the
3rd line down from the upper right hand corner?

Thanks in advance


"SF" nospam@@@nospam wrote in message
...
How do I insert a date field that will update every time the
document is opened?

Someone mentioned a template especially for the document.
But I don't know how to work it so that the date simply updates,
rather than constantly getting inserted so that if I open the
document ten times, I have ten dates written in it.

Word checks the date when you start it. Close and restart Word.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"SF" nospam@@@nospam wrote in message
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Okay, Greg,

I copy pasted that code into the delimiters (using CTRL F-9 to get those
delimiters). I believe you are missing a closing quote, so I put that in.

Now, if I save and close the document, then adjust the date to be the year
2007 by rt clicking the date in the lower right task bar, then re-open the
document . . . . Voila! . . . . (nothing happens). The date does not
update to the year 2007.
It only does that after I click on it, turning it gray, then update the
field.

What am I doing wrong???


"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
...
SF,

Use a DATE field with a date picture switch. For example this field will
update with the Day/Date/Time each time the document is opened or fields
updated:

{ Date \@ "DDDD, MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm:ss }

The field delimiters { } are entered with CTRL+F9

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

SF wrote:
Let me explain my problem a little more clearly:

I have a title page for a novel.
In the upper left corner on 4 separate lines are my name, address,
phone. In the upper right corner on 3 lines are the genre
description, word count and date.

Now, how can I make a template that will update the date field on the
3rd line down from the upper right hand corner?

Thanks in advance


"SF" nospam@@@nospam wrote in message
...
How do I insert a date field that will update every time the
document is opened?

Someone mentioned a template especially for the document.
But I don't know how to work it so that the date simply updates,
rather than constantly getting inserted so that if I open the
document ten times, I have ten dates written in it.

No. It stops whon you close Word. You can have Word running with no document
open.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"SF" nospam@@@nospam wrote in message
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I'm sorry, Charles, I'm beginning to feel like a dumbo.

But doesn't Word stop and then restart when I close the document and then
reopen it?

I have no other programs running when I try this. Not even Word.
There are no little rectangles down on the taskbar indicating that a
folder or document is open.
I don't run anything that has anything to do with Word before I try this.
All I do is click on the icon of my document. It opens. The date is today.
I close the document. No Word programs are now running. (Nothing is
running).
I change the date to the year 2007.
I reopen the document by clicking on the icon.
The document opens but the date is still 2005.

???




"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
Word checks the date when you start it. Close and restart Word.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"SF" nospam@@@nospam wrote in message
...
Okay, Greg,

I copy pasted that code into the delimiters (using CTRL F-9 to get those
delimiters). I believe you are missing a closing quote, so I put that
in.

Now, if I save and close the document, then adjust the date to be the
year 2007 by rt clicking the date in the lower right task bar, then
re-open the document . . . . Voila! . . . . (nothing happens). The date
does not update to the year 2007.
It only does that after I click on it, turning it gray, then update the
field.

What am I doing wrong???


"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
...
SF,

Use a DATE field with a date picture switch. For example this field
will update with the Day/Date/Time each time the document is opened or
fields updated:

{ Date \@ "DDDD, MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm:ss }

The field delimiters { } are entered with CTRL+F9

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

SF wrote:
Let me explain my problem a little more clearly:

I have a title page for a novel.
In the upper left corner on 4 separate lines are my name, address,
phone. In the upper right corner on 3 lines are the genre
description, word count and date.

Now, how can I make a template that will update the date field on the
3rd line down from the upper right hand corner?

Thanks in advance


"SF" nospam@@@nospam wrote in message
...
How do I insert a date field that will update every time the
document is opened?

Someone mentioned a template especially for the document.
But I don't know how to work it so that the date simply updates,
rather than constantly getting inserted so that if I open the
document ten times, I have ten dates written in it.

I see.
Well, what I did was closed everything and re-booted.
But when I open the document, it still shows the old date.
(Honest, I'm not trying to be difficult here. . . .


"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
No. It stops whon you close Word. You can have Word running with no
document open.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"SF" nospam@@@nospam wrote in message
...
I'm sorry, Charles, I'm beginning to feel like a dumbo.

But doesn't Word stop and then restart when I close the document and then
reopen it?

I have no other programs running when I try this. Not even Word.
There are no little rectangles down on the taskbar indicating that a
folder or document is open.
I don't run anything that has anything to do with Word before I try this.
All I do is click on the icon of my document. It opens. The date is
today.
I close the document. No Word programs are now running. (Nothing is
running).
I change the date to the year 2007.
I reopen the document by clicking on the icon.
The document opens but the date is still 2005.

???




"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
Word checks the date when you start it. Close and restart Word.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"SF" nospam@@@nospam wrote in message
...
Okay, Greg,

I copy pasted that code into the delimiters (using CTRL F-9 to get
those delimiters). I believe you are missing a closing quote, so I put
that in.

Now, if I save and close the document, then adjust the date to be the
year 2007 by rt clicking the date in the lower right task bar, then
re-open the document . . . . Voila! . . . . (nothing happens). The
date does not update to the year 2007.
It only does that after I click on it, turning it gray, then update the
field.

What am I doing wrong???


"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
...
SF,

Use a DATE field with a date picture switch. For example this field
will update with the Day/Date/Time each time the document is opened or
fields updated:

{ Date \@ "DDDD, MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm:ss }

The field delimiters { } are entered with CTRL+F9

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

SF wrote:
Let me explain my problem a little more clearly:

I have a title page for a novel.
In the upper left corner on 4 separate lines are my name, address,
phone. In the upper right corner on 3 lines are the genre
description, word count and date.

Now, how can I make a template that will update the date field on the
3rd line down from the upper right hand corner?

Thanks in advance


"SF" nospam@@@nospam wrote in message
...
How do I insert a date field that will update every time the
document is opened?

Someone mentioned a template especially for the document.
But I don't know how to work it so that the date simply updates,
rather than constantly getting inserted so that if I open the
document ten times, I have ten dates written in it.