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I am in a court case with a neighbor, going to court today at 10:am I need to know what time I wrote a letter that pertains to this case.. I used Microsoft Word. I didnt put a date or time on the letter.. I did however save the letter.. I am running Microsoft Word XP. Please help me I posted this question with another website earlier yesterday, and they emailed me back and said they had an answer. But I could not find it any where much less my Question I need the answer in 7-hours for my court case today.. Thank You Note I am new to this site, and I have no clue how to get the answers once they are posted.. So could you please send me an email with the answer to -- |
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Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:05:19 +0000 from :
I am in a court case with a neighbor, going to court today at 10:am I need to know what time I wrote a letter that pertains to this case.. I used Microsoft Word. I didnt put a date or time on the letter.. Find the letter file in Explorer, and right-click on it. Select Properties. That will show you date and time created. (If you can't find it in Explorer, try Search with a phrase that's in the letter, and that might find it.) However, nothing you can get off your computer is what I would call proof for a court case -- the best it can do is refresh your memory. In other words, it can help you avoid making an honset mistake but it can't rule out a deliberate lie. For instance, you could very well have changed your computer's date and time five minutes ago, created the letter, then changed the computer date/time back, if you were trying to create a false trail. Understand I'm not saying you _did_ do this or _would_ do this, just that it's possible. And since it's possible, it means that the date and time on a file don't prove anything in a legal sense. Someone else suggested the CREATEDATE field within Word. This has all the above disadvantages, _plus_ you actually have to alter the file. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |