One of the pieces of information that Word maintains about documents is when they were last printed. Every time you print your document, this piece of information is updated. There may be times when you want to display this "last printed" date in your document. To do this, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Field dialog box.
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2020-08-02 21:56:35
Joel
"One of the pieces of information that Word maintains about documents is when they were last printed. Every time you print your document, this piece of information is updated." My documents only update the printing information on rare occasions. I have clicked on the box to update the "last printed" info., but it still doesn't work - even with a new document. Thanks.
2020-03-20 12:45:30
Mikael
Thank you . This is very helpful.
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