fumei thanks for the response. Actually the document will be stored on the intranet so I do want it to put the current date in it everytime it is opened. We don't want users to open and edit already created documents since there have been mistakes where instead of using save as they have used save which then loses the document trail and goofs up the file naming convention. The date raised cell is not populated and there will be code to check to see if one already exists, if so the document will protect to disallow edits forcing the person to go on the intranet and use the blank document. I will look at bookmarks and see what I can find. I tried just creating a macro, but once it is started it disallows clicking in the date raised cell to do any more with.

Regards,

Mel