Deleting "Created, modified, and accessed" info

[SultrySonya]

I am wondering if it is possible to create a document and
have the following ommitted from the properties tab:

a)Created time and date stamp
b)Modified time and date stamp
c)Accessed time and date stamp
d)Author

Thank you sooo much in advance.

Sonya

 

[&:-jesse\)]

Sonya,

If your new documents all include this information then it
appears that the normal template has been modified to
include these fields. You can either open the template and
remove these field codes, or create a new Normal by
renaming the existing one to oldnormal.dot.

see...

http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/homepages/ProductUp
dates.asp

jesse

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Sonya

You can change author's name. In Word, Tools > Options > User Information. Whatever name you specify there is shown as the name of
the author in the File > Properties dialog for a new document.

If you want to change the author's name of an existing document, do File > Information and change it there. Make a change in the
document (eg press the space bar then backspace, so Word thinks that something changed and the file is worth saving). Then save.

The other properties (created, modified and accessed times) you can't change. Furthermore, they're highly misleading. The create
date shown on the first tab at File > Properties gives one date, but the create date on the Statistics tab is often different. If
you look in Windows for the same information, it reports the two different dates depending on what tab of the File Properties dialog
you're looking at.

So, I have a document here that Word and Windows report as created on both Monday and on Tuesday this week. And both tell me that I
printed it out last August, over a year before it was created<g>.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia

 

[Andra]

General > Created is a date the file has been created in this particular
location regarding file system on the disk

Statistics > Created is a date the Word document has been created

Statistics > Printed, as far as I know, keeps the value of the old doc if a
new document has been created with "Save As"

Hi Sonya

You can change author's name. In Word, Tools > Options > User Information.

Whatever name you specify there is shown as the name of

the author in the File > Properties dialog for a new document.

If you want to change the author's name of an existing document, do File >

Information and change it there. Make a change in the

document (eg press the space bar then backspace, so Word thinks that

something changed and the file is worth saving). Then save.

The other properties (created, modified and accessed times) you can't

change. Furthermore, they're highly misleading. The create

date shown on the first tab at File > Properties gives one date, but the

create date on the Statistics tab is often different. If

you look in Windows for the same information, it reports the two different

dates depending on what tab of the File Properties dialog

you're looking at.

So, I have a document here that Word and Windows report as created on both

Monday and on Tuesday this week. And both tell me that I

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unless you save a document after printing, there is no record in the
Properties of that printing, so if you've never saved a document after
printing, it's not illogical that the Statistics would record the template
printing date.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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Hi Andra

That's my understanding, too.

The printed date can also depend on the last time the document's template

was printed. Hence, it's actually frequently the case that