dates fields

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i have a document that receives periodic updated. i have
in the footer, a section that reads: "FORM DATE: ______"
and directly below it, "FORM REPLACES_______" where dates
would obviously be in the blank areas. i want the date
the changes i just made to show up under "form date" and
lets say i edit it again next week, well i would want
today's date to go into "form replaces" and the next week
date to go into "form date" basically i want the date
that the "form replaces" put in that field automatically,
and the "form date" to be stamped into the document, not
updated everytime it is opened. TIA.
 
This will require vba. Also, word often will think you made changes when all
you did was print, because printing will update certain fields.
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actually i would not want the dates to change when all i
did was print. VBA is fine. i am somewhat fluent in VBA
for excel, but have never used it for word.
 
I would recommend reposting in the vba.beginners newsgroup. Keep in mind
that probably the best solution is going to be some kind of button to
restamp your document. This will require the self-discipline to click on the
button when changes are made. I use custom document properties for this sort
of thing.

As far as I know, Word cannot tell the difference between updating fields
(to show the same thing as before the update) and making real changes. I
suppose it is possible to prepare a document that has no fields in it. In
that case, printing should not indicate to Word that the document has
changed. Doing so, though, really limits you in terms of Table of Contents,
headers, and cross-references.

You may also want to turn on "track changes."
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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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