Origin Of a Spreadsheet

[Fuabr84]

Hi

Does ANYONE know if it is at all possible to find out the origin of
spreadsheet? By this i mean, is it possible to track through the exce
document and find out who created it? Finding out the Computer name o
which the document was created or an IP address or any clue on who o
what PC created a document?

If anyone knows anything about finding this out could you please let m
know and explain how to do it.

Thank

 

[Mark Lincoln]

Go to File|Properties.

 

[Harlan Grove]

Mark Lincoln wrote...

Go to File|Properties.

Doesn't always provide useful information. Where I work, which I'll
call XYZ Corp., the automated software install process gives *every*
user the username XYZ User. That would narrow it down to the company
that produced a spreadsheet as long as users play nice.

However, not all users play nice. Anyone with a hex editor can wipe out
any identifying information in the .xls file itself. Copy it onto blank
media, and there'd be no way to tell where it came from.

 

[Pete_UK]

Or you can start with a file that somebody else created, then delete
everything in it and build it up yourself - the originator details and
creation date will be taken from the original file.

Pete