goose Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 I need you badly. I've made track changes to a Word document. The balloon edits show a time-stamp of 11-Sept. How can I make it say 11-Aug? I don't want the recipient to know I just made the changes. I could turn of the date and time option altogether and just PDF it before sending but that looks suspicious. Thanks in advance.
The Outsider Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 I need you badly. I've made track changes to a Word document. The balloon edits show a time-stamp of 11-Sept. How can I make it say 11-Aug? I don't want the recipient to know I just made the changes. I could turn of the date and time option altogether and just PDF it before sending but that looks suspicious. Thanks in advance. I think Word pulls the date from your computer, not sure though. If that's the case, changing the date of your computer should do the trick. Tardy by a month! :omg: :poink:
b555 Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/sharing/howtrackchangesworks.html i guess this page will help as it contains some answers
Gunner_Mania Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 I need you badly. I've made track changes to a Word document. The balloon edits show a time-stamp of 11-Sept. How can I make it say 11-Aug? I don't want the recipient to know I just made the changes. I could turn of the date and time option altogether and just PDF it before sending but that looks suspicious. Thanks in advance. As the prof says change the computer date to 11 Aug. Word picks up the time stamp from there.
veer Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 i think you will need to change computer date and re-do those changes..
yoda Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 Man-up and face it Or in other words ask them to take it or shove it. :winky:
goose Posted September 16, 2010 Author Posted September 16, 2010 ok i've tried changing the clock on my mac but that didn't alter the time-stamp. i didn't think that would work. i mean you wouldn't expect the time-stamp on your emails to change would you...or would you? 30 pages of minutes i edited! it's crucial that it looks like i did this in August. it also says i spent 829 minutes editing it too which i could do without. what shall i do? 'man up and face it' is good advice albeit ironic coming from a guy called 'online' !
goose Posted September 16, 2010 Author Posted September 16, 2010 http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/sharing/howtrackchangesworks.html i guess this page will help as it contains some answers thanks...checking that out.
ludhianvi Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 This seems to cover remove dates/etc...see if it helps http://www.wordbanter.com/showthread.php?t=129534 http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3827063.php GL unfortunately, dont have word installed at the moment to play around with it
The Outsider Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 ok i've tried changing the clock on my mac but that didn't alter the time-stamp. i didn't think that would work. i mean you wouldn't expect the time-stamp on your emails to change would you...or would you? 30 pages of minutes i edited! it's crucial that it looks like i did this in August. it also says i spent 829 minutes editing it too which i could do without. what shall i do? 'man up and face it' is good advice albeit ironic coming from a guy called 'online' ! goose, did you try to edit the file after changing the time on your computer. I really can't think where else would Word pull up the information from.
yoda Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 ok i've tried changing the clock on my mac but that didn't alter the time-stamp. i didn't think that would work. i mean you wouldn't expect the time-stamp on your emails to change would you...or would you? 30 pages of minutes i edited! it's crucial that it looks like i did this in August. it also says i spent 829 minutes editing it too which i could do without. what shall i do? 'man up and face it' is good advice albeit ironic coming from a guy called 'online' ! you would have to first undo your changes, change the system date/timestamp, redo your changes so that it can track using the new date/timestamp. is that what you did?
f.b.m Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 Change the date and submit the report as a pdf. No metadata to sneak up on suspicious details.
goose Posted September 16, 2010 Author Posted September 16, 2010 goose' date=' did you try to edit the file [b']after changing the time on your computer. I really can't think where else would Word pull up the information from. i should have clarified i don't want to be making the changes again from scratch - it took me 3 days !
The Outsider Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 i should have clarified i don't want to be making the changes again from scratch - it took me 3 days ! Aaah....I see. I googled around a bit on this and the best I could find was an option to remove the time stamp altogether - nothing for just being able to modify it. But since you already have the changes, all you have to do is replicate them in a new file after changing the time on your computer. A pain, I know, but certainly doable in a few hours even for a 30 page document since you won't even have to read the document completely now.
yoda Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 Why can't you copy and paste your new document on top of the old one after changing system date/time?
nospam Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 on a mac/unix system, open terminal from utilities, cd to the directory you are working on, type "touch -t 200201311246.26 file.doc" to change the date+time of the file. to see if it worked, type "ls -l file.doc". example to change date/time of file.doc on my desktop, open terminal from utilities cd Desktop ls -l file.doc Output: -rw-r--r-- 1 nospam staff 2638107 Sep 16 18:57 file.doc touch -t 200901011200 file.doc ls -l file.doc Output: -rw-r--r-- 1 nospam staff 2638107 Jan 1 2009 file.doc I would recommend you to test this on some other file before trying it on your document. More info on touch command - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_(Unix)
goose Posted September 23, 2010 Author Posted September 23, 2010 on a mac/unix system, open terminal from utilities, cd to the directory you are working on, type "touch -t 200201311246.26 file.doc" to change the date+time of the file. to see if it worked, type "ls -l file.doc". example to change date/time of file.doc on my desktop, open terminal from utilities cd Desktop ls -l file.doc Output: -rw-r--r-- 1 nospam staff 2638107 Sep 16 18:57 file.doc touch -t 200901011200 file.doc ls -l file.doc Output: -rw-r--r-- 1 nospam staff 2638107 Jan 1 2009 file.doc I would recommend you to test this on some other file before trying it on your document. More info on touch command - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_(Unix) ok i tried the above but it didn't work. did i f%ck! seriously, thanks for the input. i just turned off the date feature and turned into a PDF.
nospam Posted September 23, 2010 Posted September 23, 2010 ok i tried the above but it didn't work. did i f%ck! seriously, thanks for the input. i just turned off the date feature and turned into a PDF. Can you list your commands and their outputs? And that PDF doesn't have a date? I don't think that's possible.
Recommended Posts