When I say “ordinal,” what I mean is the day of the month expressed as an ordinal number, i.e., 1st, 15th, etc. We’ll get the hardest part of this out-of-the-way first: the ordinal date. It’s that last one, SaveDate, that I’ll use in this example, but you can use any date field for this trick. For example, you can insert the date the document was created, the last date it was printed, or the date the document was last saved. A lot of Microsoft Word users don’t know, however, that you can insert other system-based dates as well. You may have already had some practice with inserting a self-updating current date in, say, a letter or other document. If you start drafting the document on the 15th but don’t actually file (or sign or whatever) until, say, the 21st or the 30th or, heaven forbid, sometime next month or year, you’re either going to have to leave blanks for the day, month and/or year while you’re drafting or remember to update all those dates when you finalize the document.īut what if you didn’t have to do either one? What if your document was smart enough to do its own updating, based on the date you saved it last? If your documents are anything like the ones I’ve worked on over the years, there’s at least one section (the “Respectfully submitted” or the Certificate of Service in pleadings or the notary acknowledgement, for example) that has this in it:
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