BK>    So what is the way to put in the date "automatically" so
BK> that it  reflects the date the document was created and not
BK> the date it was  pulled up and previewed or printed again?
BD> I am not aware of any field that can simply be inserted
BD> which reflects creation date.
I was wrong.  There is a field called CREATEDATE. Access it by using the 
Insert Field option.  You can record a macro and assign it to a toolbar 
button to make this function easy to accomplish.
The reason we had not used it before is because we are using templates for 
commonly used documents.  There seems to be a bug in the use of this field 
from a template.  When we create a document based on a template with 
CREATEDATE field in it, the field does not update, unless you do it manually. 
This defeated the purpose of automating it to begin with.  So we chose the 
autonew macro approach that inserted hard date text, instead.
Bob
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