Mail merge

This is not Word Perfect; Word documents are created from templates.
As Doug suggests, the number of commands is identical and there is no danger
of screwing up your template.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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JohnD wrote:
Would I always have to follow this sequence or is it only the first
time I create a new document from the template. If it is always I
feel it is a very poor way of having to cary out this. In WordPerfect
when you open the template all this is carried out automatically once
the document has been created.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The createdate field in the template will *ALWAYS* show the date the
template was created. It seems you are still not using the template
correctly. You don't *OPEN* the template, but create a *NEW*
document from it (OFFICE BUTTON NEW!). The new document will
display the current date.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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JohnD wrote:
Hi Doug

Thanks for your reply.

No not really it does not help.

I am using Word 2007. I have done all this but even when I select
the template I have saved it will not update the file date when I
next open it. It saves the template with the date I created it not
the current date.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

NO! From the File menu, select New and then navigate select the
template as the basis for the document that you want to create.

You will need to have saved the template into your User Templates
folder, the location of which you can determine by selecting
Options from the Tools menu and then go to the File Locations tab.

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Hope this helps.

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"JohnD" wrote in message
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Dear Graham

Thank for your promp reply. If I am to understand you correctly
what I need
to do is open the template, make a copy of it under a new name,
delete the original template and use the newly copied template to
perform my future merges. If I am misunderstanding your
instructions please enlighten me with
step by step instructions. Forgive me if I sound silly but I am
new to Word
and have always used WordPerfect in the past and found it a much
simpler package to use untill I upgraded to Vista and found it to
be too unstable.

JohnD

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You don't 'open the template' and merge from it, you create a new
document
from the template and merge that. The new document will have the
current date. The template will always show the date it was
created. A createdate field when merged will put the date in the
merged document as plain text whereas a date field will pass the
date field to the merged document.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




JohnD wrote:
Thank you for your advice Doug I have tried the Createdate as
you suggested but unless I am missing something it does not
work. I used createdate yesterday and saved it as a template as
you suggested. I then opened up the the template merged it with
an outlook address and saved the merged document under a new
name. And yes you are correct it does save the merged document
with the date saved but next day I opened the template for my
next merge and the current date is not updated it shows
yesterdays date. (the same as the document I saved yesterday)

JohnD

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Use a createdate field in the mail merge main document and save
it as a template (.dot) file. Then when you create a new (mail
merge main document from that template) that field will display
the current date.

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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

"JohnD" wrote in message
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When merging can the date in the merged document be saved at
the time of the
merge whilst still updating the date of the original document.
For example when preparing a customer quotation and saving the
merged document it preserves the saved date but updates the
original document ready for the next
merge. I have tried Createdate and savedate but neither seem
to work.