Despite what you might think, MS Word still, after all these years, does not play properly with MacOS X, so it does not work as expected with the autosave feature of OS X, but rather uses its own internal autosave feature. Consequently, there is no access to or respect for the associated command of Revert To… or Browse All Versions. MS Word is still very much mired in the horrible 1996 release and, despite many improvements and enhancements since those dark days, still remains a pale shadow of the Windows version in too many ways. 1996: the other hallmark date is 2001, when the first official version of MacOS X was released, which means that Microsoft have had almost twenty years to get this sorted out, but they haven’t. I’d better get off that soapbox now while I still can or it’ll take up the rest of the day.
The point is that the original Creation Date of the file should still be available, if you select the file in Finder and Get Info (cmd-I) on it. You’ll find the Creation Date on the fourth line under the General category. The one problem with this is that, depending on how it was done, if you have copied the file from another drive at some point, the Creation Date might show the date of that copy, rather than the Original Creation Date. Nevertheless, it will still be more informative than the Modified Date. The other thing you could do is navigate to your file’s folder in Finder, and View As List. Choose View > Show View Options from the Menu Bar and you will a list of items to be shown in List View. Set the “Date Created” checkbox, and that column will now appear in the Finder Window. You are free to position the column wherever you like simply by dragging its header around. With any luck your original creation dates will have been preserved. You can do exactly the same thing with any of the other columns shown in that Show View Options window. Unfortunately, I can’t help you with how how Word handles any of this. I might also recommend opening your Word files in Apple’s Pages. The latest versions do a very good job of retaining the format and integrity of the originals. You can then make all your changes in Pages, and when you save they will be saved as Pages files, leaving the original Works files unmodified in any way, including all date information. > > On 3 Jun 2018, at 11:54 am, Severin Crisp <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> I am working on a series of old Word documents and realise that the revised >> versions are saved with the current date. >> How can I recover the true origin dates? >> Severin Crisp >> ____________________________________________________ >> >> Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys >> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia >> ph (08) 9842 1950 Mob 0484 624 741 >> mail to: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> _________________________________________ Kind regards, Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
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