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Microsoft office 2008 for mac

Hootanany · 2011-05-05 12:50:10

Sorry if posted before but when i open an old document in word the date changes to today date is there any way of keeping the original date. Many thanks in advance

05-05-2011 01:50PM

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Sorry if posted before but when i open an old document in word the date changes to today date is there any way of keeping the original date. Many thanks in advance

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#3 07-05-2011 01:47PM

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To see when the doc was created...

Open Doc.
ctrl-click the date.
Select Toggle Field Codes.
Replace the word DATE with CREATEDATE.
ctrl-click and Update Field.
Voilà! (works on Word v.X on my old powerbook, shouldn't be radically different for your more modern version).

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