Word 2003 macro to find out the creation date

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Hi,

Can anybody tell me how to pick up the document stats, creation date, last modified date etc within a word macro please.

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Mike

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Can anybody tell me how to pick up the document stats, creation date, last modified date etc within a word macro please.

What kinds of statistics? Try these (you can explore further parameters in the help and object browser):

Code:

msgbox activedocument.ComputeStatistics(wdStatisticWords)
msgbox activedocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties(wdpropertytimecreated)

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What kinds of statistics? Try these (you can explore further parameters in the help and object browser):

Code:

msgbox activedocument.ComputeStatistics(wdStatisticWords)
msgbox activedocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties(wdpropertytimecreated)

Thanks…. this will do fine

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Hi Mike,

Many stats can also be retrieved via fields. For example: CREATEDATE, PRINTDATE, SAVEDATE, NUMWORDS, FILESIZE, AUTHOR, etc, etc. Check out Insert|Field. The DOCPROPERTY field has numerous options too.

Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

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Beware that the only meaningful file date&time field is the File Modified/Changed Date/Time.

See this ancient but still relevant XXCOPY technical article.

BATcher

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Beware that the only meaningful file date&time field is the File Modified/Changed Date/Time.

Hi BATcher,

I disagree – strongly. The data returned by Word from the document metadata has little to do with the File Modified/Changed Date/Time recorded by the operating system and represents the document’s history as distinct from the file’s history. The document creation date, for example, reflects the date the document was created (or last saved using File|Save As), which can be much earlier than any date recorded by the operating system – simply because the document was created on a different system before being copied to the one on which it is now stored. Ditto the saved date.

Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

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My error is to assume that Word is obtaining its date information from the file system. Put it down to pure ignorance!

BATcher

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