Charles,

I just tried every possible thing…. and I think I got a solution. I want to share it with you to know what you think… and if there is any possible downside.

I made a “text form field” which defaults to the current time part of my AutoText snippet. Every time I insert the auto text the time inserted is current. And when I save and reopen the dates are unchanged.

Also you can’t right click and select update. what do you think?

I found some bugs on the approach if you print or export as pdf, the fields are updated. any insights?
I could totally tolerate this scenarios because the documents are not intended for print. Is there any other scenario where the fields will get updated?