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Tweaking the properties of a MS Word document
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We all know that when we save a MS Word document (version 2003 onwards) and then right-click to view it's properties, we generally find the following parameters : Location, Size, Size on disk, Created, Modified, Accessed etc. Now my question is simply this: is it possible to tweak the values of the above-mentioned parameters either from the registry or by using any third party softwares? Please illuminate me with your replies? Bye. |
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On 9/4/2010 05:45, Mr. Humpback wrote:
Hello! We all know that when we save a MS Word document (version 2003 onwards) and then right-click to view it's properties, we generally find the following parameters : Location, Size, Size on disk, Created, Modified, Accessed etc. It's not just Word created files. You can't change the location, or size on disk without moving or altering the file. Filesize, created, modified and accessed are kept in the file's directory entry's attributes. Now my question is simply this: is it possible to tweak the values of the above-mentioned parameters either from the registry or by using any third party softwares? http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/bulk_file_changer.html |
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"Mr. Humpback" wrote:
We all know that when we save a MS Word document (version 2003 onwards) and then right-click to view it's properties, we generally find the following parameters : Location, Size, Size on disk, Created, Modified, Accessed etc. Why are you asking about MS-word 2003 and higher, in a windows-98 group? I don't even think that word 2003 can be installed on windows 98. And what makes MS-word document files any different than any other type of file when it comes to it's various properties (location, size, created, etc) ? If you're asking if there's a utility that can change the properties of a file (like creation date), there are utilities to do that: http://www.attributemagic.com/ http://www.petges.lu/download/ac.exe http://pcwin.com/downloads/Modify-File-Date.htm http://www.softlist.net/products/change_file_time.html I don't know which of the above (if any) run on Windows 98. I wouldn't think you can change or alter the File Size or Size on Disk or Location data and make those properties different than they actually are. Are you trying to do some detective work? Is this for a court case, and you're looking to dispute the file date and time on a file that is a piece of evidence? |
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Tweaking the properties of a MS Word document
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microsoft.public.office.developer.com.add_ins Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing office newsgroups "Mr. Humpback" wrote in message ... Hello! We all know that when we save a MS Word document (version 2003 onwards) and then right-click to view it's properties, we generally find the following parameters : Location, Size, Size on disk, Created, Modified, Accessed etc. Now my question is simply this: is it possible to tweak the values of the above-mentioned parameters either from the registry or by using any third party softwares? Please illuminate me with your replies? Bye. |
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Tweaking the properties of a MS Word document
"Mr. Humpback" wrote in message
... We all know that when we save a MS Word document (version 2003 onwards) and then right-click to view it's properties, we generally find the following parameters : Location, Size, Size on disk, Created, Modified, Accessed etc. Now my question is simply this: is it possible to tweak the values of the above-mentioned parameters either from the registry or by using any third party softwares? 1. Generally no. These properties are unique to individual data files of the same type. Registry keys refer to non-data files (e.g. DLLs) but treat each type of data file uniformly (i.e. treat all data files of the same type in a uniform way.) 2. The Win98 NG is concerned with the Win98 OS. MS Word is now a part of MS Office, for which there are specialist NGs, where you can get specific advice. E.g. another respondent recommended microsoft.public.office.developer.com.add_ins -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Tweaking the properties of a MS Word document
In message , Don Phillipson
writes: "Mr. Humpback" wrote in message ... We all know that when we save a MS Word document (version 2003 onwards) and then right-click to view it's properties, we generally find the following parameters : Location, Size, Size on disk, Created, Modified, Accessed etc. To me, that _sounds_ as if you're right-clicking in Windows Explorer, in which case it applies to just about any file type, not just .doc files. Now my question is simply this: is it possible to tweak the values of the above-mentioned parameters either from the registry or by using any third party softwares? Well, location is where it is: the only way you can alter that is by moving the file! Similarly size is its size, and size on disc is size rounded up to the nearest whole cluster, which is a property of the disc you're using (strictly, of how the disc is formatted), so you can't change that either. The created/modified/accessed _dates_ are something that _can_ be modified: I'm not sure how reliably all three are even stored in '9x, but anyway there are third-party utilities that let you fiddle with them. (IIRR, the date/time is actually quantised in two-second increments, or something like that.) 1. Generally no. These properties are unique to individual data files of the same type. Registry keys refer to non-data files (e.g. DLLs) but treat each type of data file uniformly (i.e. treat all data files of the same type in a uniform way.) There are other properties which _are_ specific to individual files of various types - for Word documents, the creator's initials for example - but the ones listed above by the OP are generic to all files. (I daresay there may well be utilities that can tweak some or all of those = and/or Word itself may be able to.) 2. The Win98 NG is concerned with the Win98 OS. MS Word is now a part of MS Office, for which there are specialist NGs, where you can get specific advice. E.g. another respondent recommended microsoft.public.office.developer.com.add_ins The above-listed properties aren't, as I've said, particular to Office documents. (Having said that, I'm not sure whether the 2003 version of Office runs under '9x - but if all you want to play with are the creation etc. dates as shown under properties in Windows Explorer, you can certainly do that to any such files that find their way onto a '9x system, even if you can't actually open them in the right version of word, if my suspicion is right that O03 might not run under '9x.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592) |
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Tweaking the properties of a MS Word document
From what I've read regarding the things he wants, I have serious
doubts as to mr humpbacks intentions..... Ed |
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