When we create a document, be it a master or a normal one, using the Microsoft Word text editor, we must know that when saving this text, certain data will be automatically established that will allow us to later search for it more easily, this data they can be, for example, the date of creation or the last time that document was opened. But if you don’t know how to obtain this data, we will show you how to know the creation date of a document or file in Word.
There is no doubt that with Word we can create from simple texts to the most complex documents, even on mobile. But it is important to know what data of the file that we have created has been saved. But more important is knowing how we can have access to this information, without this becoming a daunting task.
In this article we are going to show you how to know the date of creation of a document or file in Word. Some of this data can only be read and therefore cannot be edited, but others can. It is interesting then to know how we can change or modify the date on which a Word document was created.
How to know the creation date of a document or file in Word
Now let’s see what we must do to be able to know the date of creation of a document or file in Word. To perform this operation it is not necessary to enter the Word application, in this case you will have to go to the location of the document that you want to know the date.
Once you locate it, you must click on it, this action will display a menu with multiple options from which you will select Properties. It’s usually at the bottom of the drop-down menu, then a dialog box will appear on the screen. With different tabs these are General, Security, Details, Previous Versions.
These are the steps to know the date of creation of a document or file in Word
In the tab that is shown by default is General and there we can see different sections and almost at the end we can see the date of creation, the date of modification and the date of last access.
But the creation date that is shown here is not the real one, it is the date of the last time the document was revised, this of course if you opened the document after having created it.
The next step will be to click on the Details tab of the Properties window, here you will see important details about the document. Such as the revisions to which the document has been subjected, who is the author and the exact date when the file was created and is the information we were looking for.
It is important that you know how to differentiate between the information that you will obtain in the General tab and that offered by the Details tab. Which if it will offer you the real information, there will be a possibility that the creation date that is shown in the General tab, coincides with the Details tab and that will depend on whether you have not opened the file again after it was created.
Knowing how to find this data in any document is important, since you can do it with other types of files, such as those created with Excel or PowerPoint. And you can apply the knowledge acquired in this article and it will work perfectly. Having this data you can more quickly search for any file or folder.
In this way we finished this tutorial that could easily show you how to know the date when a document is created in Word and that will be useful for you to perform searches in Windows Explorer, without wasting time.
