I have a large document, header, footers, change-tracking page, cover page. Each area has a date of the form "Monday, December 10, 2012". This date is identical in each of the locations. When I make a new version I simply want to change all the occurrences of "Monday, December 10, 2012" with whatever the current date is - but Word has other ideas. First I do the document and it makes one change - the header page. Then the footers - which are odd/even and I must do at least FOUR changes there, maybe six, I presume it cannot go across sections. It is infuriating. I simply stick the cursor in the line where the change was NOT made and repeat the change and this time it does it.

I am using Find & Replace from the Advanced thing. What should take a second takes considerably longer and on occasions I have missed one of the changes.

Any ideas?