Did you read the Introduction? If you had, and if you toggled Word's field shading on as it suggests, you'd have known by now that the 'Saturday, 12 December 2009' date in your post is a field that you can simply copy & paste from the tutorial into your document. Unless you need to adjust the field code for internationalization issues (as also discussed in the Introduction), all you need do is update the field. Indeed, if you have Word configured to 'update fields before printing', you don't even need to do that!

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]