Hi Miketallica,

Since, it seems, all you need is for the current date to appear at the appropriate places and in the appropriate format in the Word document, you should be aware that you can do this without resorting to vba at all.

To see how to do this and just about everything else you might want to do with dates in Word, check out my Word Date Calculation Tutorial, at:
http://www.wopr.com/index.php?showtopic=249902
or
http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#Third_party
Do read the document's introductory material.