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Subject:Re: Word Save Date Question From:"Skip Mendler" <wmendler -at- cornetltd -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:31:30 -0500
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From: Backer, Corinne <CBacker -at- glhec -dot- org>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Friday, November 05, 1999 12:45 PM
Subject: RE: Word Save Date Question
>I would like to get the workaround, too. I have this same problem - and
it's
>so frustrating, because we want the date to be a variable, so when changes
>are made it's updated, but NOT change when you just print the doc for
>someone. (Then, all my developers are wandering around like baby chicks
>squawking about how their dates don't match.)
>
I think the problem is that Word repaginates when you print.
The workaround would probably involve 1) a user-defined property (Last
Revision Date or somesuch) and 2) a macro that prompts you to authorize the
updating of that property whenever the doc is saved.
