Hi Nicole, Below is a modified copy of a previous post relating to word times. Most of this is based on me sitting in front of word 97 and trying things out. As some other person mentioned "what are you looking for" if you give me more info I might be able to work out more. You probably are referring to Word 2000 as Australian universities get it cheap under caudit. Oh well since you did not mention a version I will tell you everything about Word 97 : ) Oh and please do tell if you find what you are looking for. When you go into windows explorer and right click and say new word document it will create a file with the following properties. Btw i have found the best way to view these items is in windows explorer and right click on the file and select properties. However W2K does not show you statistics where NT and 98 will. General tab: CREATED Friday, July 06, 2001 10:09:17 AM MODIFIED Friday, August 01, 1997 8:37:00 AM ACCESSED Friday, July 06, 2001 10:15:01 AM Statistics tab: CREATED blank MODIFIED Friday, August 01, 1997 8:37:00 AM ACCESSED Friday, July 06, 2001 10:15:01 AM Now when you first open a document it fills in the Created and modifies the Last accessed times as present. The august 01, 1997 above time is from the c:\winnt\shellnew\winword8.doc file. When you first open a document or create on from within word the created and modified times change to suit. When you open a document then save the last accessed and modified times will change. These items only get changed when you press save. Also just for your information word 97 stores the last 10 authors by default. This is stored with the authors name having a space after each character. E.g. if author is "daniel" it is stored "d a n i e l" Word Microsoft kb articles of relevance: Q172875 - WD97: General Document Properties Incorrect During Save Q223790 - WD97: How to Minimize Metadata in Microsoft Word Documents Q195005 - WD97: Some Document Properties Populated Automatically Another site that might help would be the follow which includes the binary format for word 97 files http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~bob/Tech/wword8.html -Daniel Heinonen ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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