If it is a template, stored in the user templates folder or the workgroup
templates folder, and if you are creating a new document based on it (using
File New) you won't have this problem. A template is not a document and it
is hard to store a document in a templates folder.

For more on the different kinds of templates and locations of templates
folders see http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Sharon" wrote in message
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I queried the newsgroup about how to get my date to change
to the current day's date and was told to use CREATEDATE
in the template. It works great!!! Now, I have another
question. I notice that when I use the template I have to
first save it to a directory/subdirectory AND THEN do the
mail merge in order for the date to be created properly.
It works great, but now I have two "documents" in the
directory, the template and the doc version. In order to
not confuse myself (or others) when they look in the
directory, I have to go back into the directory and delete
the template. I wonder if there is another way to go
about this?