Add an automatic changing date to Microsoft Word

Welcome to the Braintek video tutorials. My name is Greg, owner of Braintek.

Today, I’m going to show you an easy way to add an automatic date into Microsoft Word.

So I’ve got a Word document here and what we’re going to do is I’m going to add an automatic date to this Word document in the document’s footer. First, we’re going to get into the footer.

We’re just going to double-click down here at the bottom of the page. When we do that, it opens up the footer option.

We’re going to come up here to the ‘Insert’ at the top of the bar and in the text grouping, we’re going to pick this icon here that is ‘Insert Date and Time.’ You can see it looks like a little calendar with a clock on it.

When we do that, it gives us these options. I’m going to pick this one and I’m going to make sure that this box here, to “update automatically,” is already checked. We’re going to click ‘OK.’ It puts my date down there. I’m going to go back to the ‘Home’ tab and I’m going to move that to the right side of the screen.

We’re going to double-click out of this and we’re going to see that my date is there. So we’re going to save this to the desktop.

There’s my document. Then we’re going to change the date on my clock here to see if it actually changes. So let’s open this document back up and the date was the 29th and now, it’s set to the 27th.

That’s how you can always have the right date on your Word document.

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