Showing Created Date of Document

Excel isn't Word. Word is designed for the production of printed documents (letters, etc.), so being able to do that there makes sense. Excel is NOT designed for creating such documents. It's a spreadsheet for number crunching.

If you want a creation date when you start a new file, then you have two choices: either type it manually or add some VBA code to convert a cell containing =NOW() or =TODAY() to a text value when you save the file.

It might help to tell us what your goal is here: what are you using Excel for?

TODAY() vs NOW() - https://www.accountingweb.com/techno...day-versus-now

thank you for your prompt reply.

i decided to put all my data into Excel because I can separate it all by columns and then do a variety of sorting column contents....
not easily achieved in word and I don't even know if I created a table in word
whether that would achieve the same thing.

will just have to suck it up and enter creation date each time.