finding past dates on documents

[lraiucrh]

How do I pull up a document and find what dates it was accessed, if I can at all.

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi,
what do you mean by "pull up a document"?
Date and time, a document was last accessed,
if you open it, is now!
Now only true for word, but for the windows explorer
also. But if you really must know it, a superb free
utility is "fileinfo" from Karl E. Peterson's
One-Stop Sourceshop
http://www.mvps.org/vb/index2.html?samples.htm
though written in VB, could be adapted, probably,
to work with vba as well, but not quite simple.
Does not run without VB-runtimes.
I don't think, that dsofile.exe, if you have heard
of it, could get you date and time of last accesss.
It lets You edit office document properties, but
AFAIK there is no doc-property of that kind.

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day lraiucrh,

Open the document.

File > Properties
Statistics (Tab)
Created: <Date Created>
Modified: <Date last Modified>
Accessed: <Date last Accessed = Today>
Printed: <Date last Printed>

Accessed: is TODAY, since by opening you have accessed it.
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Australia

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There is document management software that can keep track of access
(requiring users to "check out" documents and check them back in. Visual
SourceSafe is one such application, I believe.

 

[LeAnn]

You could alway use the Windows explorer and navigate to
the folder where the document resides. Change the view to
Details. Then right click the column headers (such as
SIZE or TYPE) and select "Date Accessed". You might have
to click "More..." to see that option. This way you
don't have to open the document. It won't show you who
accessed it though.