Word 2000: makes dates current on old documents. Help me stop this please.

[HansSvetty]

I'm trying to print out old letters of recommendation, invoices, etc for my little sculpting business, and the date revisions to the current day are made when I open them.

Word is messing me up, and I don't know how to use it properly and stop this. I feel like a monkey playing the piano mucking around in the interface looking for the settings that will stop changing the actual dates to current on old documents when the files are reopened.

Also, are the origional dates lost forever if I open a document with this feature enabled? If so, I'm in trouble...

Thanks in advance for any advice,

hans

 

[joinT]

Originally posted by: HansSvetty
I'm trying to print out old letters of recommendation, invoices, etc for my little sculpting business, and the date revisions to the current day are made when I open them.

Word is messing me up, and I don't know how to use it properly and stop this. I feel like a monkey playing the piano mucking around in the interface looking for the settings that will stop changing the actual dates to current on old documents when the files are reopened.

Also, are the origional dates lost forever if I open a document with this feature enabled? If so, I'm in trouble...

Thanks in advance for any advice,

hans

I hate this too. I don't personally know of a way to stop it, but I'm pretty sure once the date has changed, if you save it, you're in trouble.

 

[MysticWar]

HansSvetty, I'm using Office XP and the way to lock the date is to click the date and press CTRL+F11. This will lock the date field and any changes made to it will be reverted back to the original once you save it. Is this what you're looking for?