How would Word ever know when 'first finished' was? One letter might be finished on the day it was created, another might take months, going through innumerable revisions in the interim, perhaps even with significant breaks between bouts of intensive editing.

As noted in my Microsoft Word Date Calculation Tutorial, you can update the CREATEDATE field's date via Save As. That might be sufficient for your 'first finished' date. You can then use the SAVEDATE field to capture/output the date on which the document was last saved and/or the PRINTDATE field to capture/output the date on which the document was last printed. Note that the PRINTDATE field updates every time the document is printed, so it won't do if you're wanting to print the last previous date on which the document was printed; to do that you'd have to lock the field via Ctrl-F11. You can unlock it again afterwards via Ctrl-Shift-F11.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]