Automatically Display Current Information in a Document

If you are creating faxes, letters, or other dated documents from a project template, you can further reduce the amount of manual work you need to do each time you create the document, by inserting the date and/or time in the template as an automatically updating field. You can choose from a variety of formats with more or less detail.

Automatically Display Current Information in a Document

The available date and time formats might vary depending on the regional settings of your computer.

After you specify the format you want to use, Word retrieves the date or time from your computer’s internal calendar or clock.

You can use the same process to insert ...

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