How to see creation date of an Office doc that has been downloaded from email

Thanks. I did not know about this Advanced Properties method. I would really like to see when my student last modied this. I guess that that is not possible. The only modified dates that I see anywhere are today's date, the date that I downloaded it from my email. I never closed/saved it, but it still shows today as the modify date, even thought I received it a week ago, so I know that the last modify date is at least a week ago.  I suppose that there is no way to get an accurate modify date, huh? I did not save it, today so it should not be using today as a modify date.

Thanks!

Word documents store their creation date internally, separately from when the operating system says the file was created.

The easiest way to get Word's creation date in Windows 7 is to right-click the file, open that same Properties dialog, and click the Details tab. The "Content created" item is the one you want.

In Word 2007, there are two other ways to see the information.

• Click the Office button, click Prepare, and click Properties. In the Properties pane, click the Document Properties text in the upper left corner and click Advanced Properties. In the dialog that pops up, click the Statistics tab to see the Created date.
• Anywhere in the document itself, press Ctrl+F9 to insert field brackets, type the word createdate between them, and press F9.