Created date and Printed date
I have a file that I received in an email and it shows today as the date created, but jan 5 of last year for the date last printed. How can it have been printed over a year before it was created?
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Field codes are excellent tools, and very powerful -- but you need to be aware of how they function to avoid the potential pitfalls of their use. Using today's date as a field for a letter is a common problem: when reprinted later for paper backup, the date no longer shows the date the letter was created.
To keep a track of when the template was first used, set an AutoNew macro populate a custom date property in the document's File Properties dialog. This value would hold a truer "created" date, since it would only be set when the document was "torn off" the template for the first time. Subsequent saves -- including saves for a new user per Kevin's scenario -- would not change the custom property. (Although of course, a user could always choose to edit it.)