Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

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How to automatically date Word documents

A simple but very useful technique

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Terry Freedman
May 28, 2024
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If you often produce new versions of documents, and you use Word, here’s an easy way of ensuring that each version has, in effect, a date stamp. I don’t think what I’m about to show you is possible in the cut-down apps version of Word, but it certainly is in both the Windows and Mac full versions.

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