Adding Static or Dynamic Dates

Adding a date to a header or footer provides useful information about when a file was created or modified. By default, ODS inserts an RTF control string that corresponds to the Word date field in the page header of RTF output. This means that the date value is updated to the current date each time the file is opened.

Depending on why the date is needed, this might be what you want. However, for some reports, you want the date in the header to be the date the report was printed or delivered. For other reports, it might be preferable to have a fixed date that represents the date the report was generated.

With ODS RTF, you can create either static or dynamic dates. To generate a page header with a dynamic date that ...

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