Many thanks for those many words of advice and suggestions thanks Peter. I will try and see what I can come up with. Severin
> On 4 Jun 2018, at 10:09, Peter Hinchliffe <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> ____________________________________________________ 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]> _________________________________________
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