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Introduction My previous article discussed the various different metadata fields that are available in Microsoft Office documents. This article will discuss ways of accessing these fields in multiple documents. It will start with looking at VBA, and then talk about an easier way. Using Visual Basic for Applications As shown in the VBA article, it is possible to read document […]
Read moreTable of contents Page 1 Microsoft Office Document Properties (Metadata) – Introduction Page 2 Microsoft Word Properties – Introduction. Page 3 Accessing Microsoft Office Properties in the File Menu This Page Accessing MS Office Properties through VBA – see below. Page 5 Pictures and Photographs document properties Je voudrais lire ceci en français. Me gustaría leer esto en español. Ich […]
Read moreMetadata for a single file is easily visible from Microsoft Office – if you know how. Unfortunately, some of the more interesting options are not as accessible as they could be. Taking a Microsoft Word 2010 file as an example (however, the same procedure can be used in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint, and in Word 2007, 2013 and Office […]
Read moreIntroduction Microsoft Word is one of the world most used programs, and its file formats (.doc, .docx and .docm) are widely used through the software world. However, there is a lot more to these formats than meet the eye. In addition to the words, formatting and other visible marks that the user inserts into a document, Microsoft also saves additional […]
Read more“The facts are not in dispute”, according to a 2014 Iowa case. Someone representing his client in a civil action forgot to serve certain papers, and so he “decided to lie about his failure to serve discovery”, and sent two discovery requests by email in June which were purportedly previously served March 21. However, those documents were fabricated, in a move […]
Read moreA 2013 case in the District Court of Idaho highlights several aspects of how important document properties can be when trying to consider files received from a second or third party. The Plaintiff, AtHome requested from the Defendant, Good Samaritan, certain documents, which it provided. Unfortunately, according to the court, there was “an inadvertent change to the creation date on certain […]
Read moreWindows Explorer v Metadata There are one basic date shown by default in Windows Explorer: Date Modified. However, that is not necessarily the date when a file has been modified! For example, when a file is downloaded, the Date Modified of that file becomes the date (and time) it was downloaded. Therefore, a file which has not been modified for […]
Read moreIntroduction Previous articles describe accessing Metadata in Microsoft Office, both using the File Menu and using Visual Basic for Applications. This article investigates the two main sets of ways to viewing Document Properties in Windows Explorer. One set allows you to access them for one file at a time. A second way reveals them for multiple files. Both ways will […]
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