Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Bug report -- LibreOffice version 4.1.3.2

** Reply to message from A <publicface@bak.rr.com> on Mon, 25 Nov 2013
09:55:26 -0800


Great! I just tested this and it does use the date/time last modified. You
don't need to tick anything else, just insert the field. Works it should.
Thanks for tracking this option down. Will be very useful.

Cliff

> I haven't tested this, but a quick perusal led me to:
>
> Insert->Fields->Other->DocInformation TAB->Modified->Select Date/Time... 
> may need to tick "Fixed Content" checkbox, I don't know.
>
> Which isn't necessarily the date the file is _saved_, but _appears to 
> be_ the date the file was *_last modified_* which I suspect is what the 
> OP really wanted.
>
>
>
> On 11/24/2013 05:31 PM, Cliff Scott wrote:
> > ** Reply to message from Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> on Sun, 24
> > Nov 2013 03:10:49 +0000
> >
> > > At 20:34 23/11/2013 -0500, Don C. Myers wrote:
> > > > About a year to a year and a half ago the question was asked on this
> > > > list about when a date is filled in automatically, how it can be
> > > > saved as the date that the file is saved, and the file will open
> > > > automatically with the saved date instead of the current date the
> > > > next time it is opened.
> > > Go to Insert | Fields > | Other... | Document.  Under Type select
> > > Date and under Select select Date - not "Date (fixed)".  One point of
> > > confusion is that at Insert | Fields > you will see a Date entry -
> > > but this is actually the "Date (fixed)" variety, not the (variable)
> > > Date that you need.  So ignore that and proceed to Other... .
> > >
> > > I trust this helps.
> > >
> > > Brian Barker
> > Brian,
> >
> > This gives a date and or time that updates everytime the file is opened, not
> > only when edited which it appears is what the poster was looking for.
> >
> > Cliff

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