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Tried your suggestion, had a hard time deleting the field. No delete from context menu & would not delete just selecting only the date field. I finally selected inclusively two rows before & after the date field & pressed the delete button on keyboard.

In Word 2007, Insert > Quick Parts > Field > CreateDate (or SaveDate or PrintDate), yet the date comes out as today’s date or ‘XXX 0, 0000’, literally.

I will attach an example original document, one of many under review in the portfolio, so you may play with it.

We don’t have any older versions of Microsoft Office anymore, so I am unable to try older versions of Word. Do you suppose the issue might lie w/ Word 2007?

Hi, Stuart ~

I really don’t know what the original date is, so it would be unethical to guess or make one up & enter it manually.

I tried viewing it in WordPad & NotePad to see if the original date would reveal itself but most of the text is garbled. The file property indicates a create date of August 1994, but it is imperative this and all other historical documents in the portfolio have the original date for viewing/printing when they go to review.

Yes, the date is on the document itself. The origianl date was the date the letter was drafted & the context menu does contains an item “Toggle Field Codes”.

Clicking on the field and pressing pressing Ctrl+Shift+F9 or CTRL+F11 locks in the date of today. I need to print the letter as originally dated.

How do I prevent the original date of the letter from being changed and/or how do I get the orginal date the letter was drafted to appear?

Wow…then double thanks!

This worked out real nice, Hans –

Is this something readily available from a Macro library or did you write this?

Nice Andrew, thanks!

That sent me in the right direction. Apparently it was partially tracking changes & leaving room for displaying same, but not printing them :

• Word 2007 > ‘Review’ > ‘Track Changes’ > ‘Change Tracking Options’
• Uncheck ‘Track Moves’
• Uncheck ‘Track Formatting’
• ‘Use Balloons (Print and Web Layout) > ‘Never’ > ‘OK’
  [/list]I had to close & reopen doc, but printed full size as expected.

‘Send to Back’ – that was the ticket.

Yes, I thought the text boxes should not be affected, but when deleting the TIF image, the page is blank (or at least the text boxes are no longer visible).

Nice!

Thanks, Dave.

Hello, Hans!

Thanks. OK – w/ the advent of the RC’s, thought there might be enough Loungers attempting to master the new features ahead of the curve & share experiences.

Hi, Stephen ~

Please note that when you reconnect your pen drive, your computer may still assign a new drive letter to it, but you simply disregard it as Windows still recognizes and will associate it with the drive folder you created.

In ‘My Computer’ > ‘Local Disk ©’ you will see your statically mounted drive folder ‘USB Drive’ that will have:

• a shared drive icon when the device is connected
• a shared folder icon when the device is disconnected [/list]

  If you try to connect from the other computers or your own to this mapped drive folder when the device is not connected, you will be greeted with ‘C:USB Drive refers to a drive that is unavailable…’ just like you would a normal unavailable mapped network drive.

  We have clients who are lackadaisical about backups, bump media drives around, etc., so this has resulted as a perfect solution to get the essential database & accounting files backed up with unattended ‘.bat’ files & off the premises in the event of an unfortunate occurrence of some disaster.

  If further clarification or questions are needed, please post back.

Hi, Stephen ~

Please note that when you reconnect your pen drive, your computer may still assign a new drive letter to it, but you simply disregard it as Windows still recognizes and will associate it with the drive folder you created.

In ‘My Computer’ > ‘Local Disk ©’ you will see your statically mounted drive folder ‘USB Drive’ that will have:

• a shared drive icon when the device is connected
• a shared folder icon when the device is disconnected [/list]

  If you try to connect from the other computers or your own to this mapped drive folder when the device is not connected, you will be greeted with ‘C:USB Drive refers to a drive that is unavailable…’ just like you would a normal unavailable mapped network drive.

  We have clients who are lackadaisical about backups, bump media drives around, etc., so this has resulted as a perfect solution to get the essential database & accounting files backed up with unattended ‘.bat’ files & off the premises in the event of an unfortunate occurrence of some disaster.

  If further clarification or questions are needed, please post back.

Hi, Stephen ~

After some very jejune as well as tedious testing w/ Win2K & XP locally & across the network, the solution I discovered works perfectly & will allow your pen or any flash drive to be statically assigned, recognized, & shared throughout your LAN or peer/peer setup.

The statements in my previous post standing accurate & noting that you must have at least one drive/partition fomatted NTFS, here are the steps to proceed:

1. Disconnect any removeable media devices > restart Windows
2. Connect your pen drive
3. Right-click ‘My Computer’ > ‘Manage’
4. ‘Computer Management’ > ‘Storage’ > ‘Disk Management’
5. On the menu bar > ‘View’ > ‘Top’ > ‘Disk List’
6. In the right-hand pane, right-click the appropriate drive under ‘Disk’
7. Select ‘Change Drive Letter & Paths…’ > ‘Add’ (‘Change’/’Assign’ will NOT work statically for removeable devices)
8. ‘Mount in the following empty NTFS folder:’ should be selected > ‘Browse’ button
9. Volumes/partitions that are NTFS & support drive paths will appear here
10. You may select any, but recommend the root drive which will typically be C:
11. Click ‘New Folder’ > name it ‘USB Drive’ or similar > ‘OK’ > ‘OK’> exit ‘Computer Management’
12. You will not see anything change in ‘Computer Management’ since it is a drive path & not a drive
13. Open ‘My Computer’ > click ‘Local Disk (C:)’ or drive you selected above
14. You will see a folder or a drive called ‘USB Drive’
15. Right-click > ‘Properties’ > ‘Sharing’ tab > check ‘Share this folder on the network’
16. Enter share name (recommend using the name of the drive folder but w/o spaces for command line net use syntax ease)
17. On your pc1, go to ‘Start’ > ‘Run’ > enter cmd > ‘OK’
18. Enter net use X: computernamesharenamedrivepathname /persistent:yes
    • ‘X’ will be a drive letter you choose to represent the pen drive
    • ‘computername’ is the name of the computer to which you wish to connect (which can be found in ‘My Computer’ properties)
    • ‘sharename’ is the name of that computer’s drive that is being shared (which can be found on the ‘Sharing’ tab of ‘Local Disk (C:)’ or appropriate drive’s properties)
    • ‘drivepathname’ is the name you designated in # 16 above (‘USB Drive’ or other)

Hi, Stephen ~

After some very jejune as well as tedious testing w/ Win2K & XP locally & across the network, the solution I discovered works perfectly & will allow your pen or any flash drive to be statically assigned, recognized, & shared throughout your LAN or peer/peer setup.

The statements in my previous post standing accurate & noting that you must have at least one drive/partition fomatted NTFS, here are the steps to proceed:

1. Disconnect any removeable media devices > restart Windows
2. Connect your pen drive
3. Right-click ‘My Computer’ > ‘Manage’
4. ‘Computer Management’ > ‘Storage’ > ‘Disk Management’
5. On the menu bar > ‘View’ > ‘Top’ > ‘Disk List’
6. In the right-hand pane, right-click the appropriate drive under ‘Disk’
7. Select ‘Change Drive Letter & Paths…’ > ‘Add’ (‘Change’/’Assign’ will NOT work statically for removeable devices)
8. ‘Mount in the following empty NTFS folder:’ should be selected > ‘Browse’ button
9. Volumes/partitions that are NTFS & support drive paths will appear here
10. You may select any, but recommend the root drive which will typically be C:
11. Click ‘New Folder’ > name it ‘USB Drive’ or similar > ‘OK’ > ‘OK’> exit ‘Computer Management’
12. You will not see anything change in ‘Computer Management’ since it is a drive path & not a drive
13. Open ‘My Computer’ > click ‘Local Disk (C:)’ or drive you selected above
14. You will see a folder or a drive called ‘USB Drive’
15. Right-click > ‘Properties’ > ‘Sharing’ tab > check ‘Share this folder on the network’
16. Enter share name (recommend using the name of the drive folder but w/o spaces for command line net use syntax ease)
17. On your pc1, go to ‘Start’ > ‘Run’ > enter cmd > ‘OK’
18. Enter net use X: computernamesharenamedrivepathname /persistent:yes
    • ‘X’ will be a drive letter you choose to represent the pen drive
    • ‘computername’ is the name of the computer to which you wish to connect (which can be found in ‘My Computer’ properties)
    • ‘sharename’ is the name of that computer’s drive that is being shared (which can be found on the ‘Sharing’ tab of ‘Local Disk (C:)’ or appropriate drive’s properties)
    • ‘drivepathname’ is the name you designated in # 16 above (‘USB Drive’ or other)

(Edited by mwolfman on 08-Jul-04 17:32. Asterisks in the subject.. again)

Hi, Al ~

This is originally how we tried to assign drive letters from ‘Disk Management’, but this will not work permanently for a USB flash drive unless you are using some accompanying software as Dave suggested.

If you remove a network drive or introduce a zip, hard, flash drive, etc. via USB, those drive letters are dynamically assigned by Windows (only in 2000 & XP). Yes, you may change them, but only for that session until it is pulled and once another device is introduced, moved or removed, the dynamic assignment is requeued.

I may have, however, discovered a way to permanently assign a USB flash device by mounting a local drive at an empty folder on an NTFS volume using a drive path instead of a drive letter. I have been playing around in Comp Mgmt and learned that each device is assigned a unique ID number based on some unique feature of the device. It seems to stick, is sharable and the folder is given a drive icon by Windows.

I need to do just a little more testing and trying to move, remove and bump drive letters to see if they will in fact remain static. If this works as imagined, this will suit both Stephen’s as well as my own needs.

I will report back with the results and details.