Hi Cindy:

There is no way of knowing "who" did something to a Word document, beyond
the "Last saved by" field, which will give you the user login ID of the user
who last saved the document.

The Date/Time stamps in the Statistics tab come from Word. The times in the
General tab come from the operating system. Each Date/Time is in Windows
Date/Time format: a 32-bit number, a Julian date recording elapsed time from
00:00:00 on Jan 1, 1601.

The Created time is copied from the source: so it can be the date the
template was created, or the time the document was created that the current
document was copied from.

The Printed time is also copied, so it is the last time that the document or
the document it was copied from was sent to print.

Modified is the last save time, Accessed is the last "opened" time.

Even if you "did" do quite a lot of programming, you would be unlikely to
get any further "reliable" information than this. If the document's
metadata is intact, you can retrieve details of the previous five or ten
users. If you have the network login names and the Word user details were
correct this may help. However, the Metadata Removal Tool released in
February 2004 should have been used on most documents by now, and will
reliably remove the information you are looking for.

Hope this helps

On 25/2/06 3:51 AM, in article
, "ckrogers"
wrote:

Hi! I've been asked to explain how Word updates the "Statistics" tab in the
Properties parameter. Specifically, they want to know how/when the users and
date/time stamps are determined for each of the categories ... created,
modified, accessed and printed. Is there any way of knowing (without
programming ... we're looking at current/historical documents, not new
documents) who did what and when?

Thanks!

Cindy

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