Changing the "date created"or modified property in Word?

[Guest]

Is it possible to go into the properties of a document and change the "date
created" or "date modified" details to reflect previous versions of a
document? Using Visual Basics? If you can with Visual Basics and there is
anyone who can tell me step by step I would be so grateful! Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Hi Jill,

Don't know if there is any very easy way to do that, but I found some stuff
at this link which looks as though it might be possible:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/FileTimes.htm

The link includes some downloadable vba code modules and I suspect that they
could be built on to provide what you want.

I'm not in a position to have a go at the moment (just about to leave the
building) but maybe someone else is

If no-one else hops in I might be able to have a try tomorrow evening (UK
time).

What would be useful to know is how familiar you are with VBA and how
detailed any steps need to be.

Regards.

Ed

 

[Guest]

Hello again,

I've had a go and I got it to work after a fashion. However, I found a
little glitch when I was testing. Originally I was setting the create date by
having it hard-coded into one of the downloaded modules; that seemed to work.
But when I altered the code to enable me to pass the date and time from a VBA
Userform it seemed to update the file properties correctly (as in
right-click>File>Properties) but the create date then showed up in Explorer
as blank. Not good :-(

It's not out of the question that I might find why it did that but I'm now
thinking that maybe it's a little dangerous to be doing this sort of thing at
all.

So I think I'll abandon the attempt :-|

If you post back with exactly why you want to be able to change the dates
and times someone may be able to suggest another approach.

Regards.

Ed