Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Workbook Creation Date

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Workbook Creation Date

If you want to know the creation date and time of the active workbook:

Sub MyCreationDate()
Dim myDate As Date
myDate = ActiveWorkbook.BuiltinDocumentProperties("Creation date").Value
MsgBox Format(myDate, "mmmm d, yyyy at h:mm:ss AM/PM"), , _
"I was born on..."
End Sub

If you want to know the creation date and time of a closed or other workbook:

Sub CreationDateWB()
Dim objWB As Object, wbName As String, myDate As Double
wbName = "C:\Your\File\Path\YourWorkbookName.xls"
Set objWB = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
myDate = objWB.GetFile(wbName).DateCreated
MsgBox wbName & " was created on" & vbCrLf & _
Format(myDate, "mmmm d, yyyy at h:mm:ss AM/PM"), , "FYI..."
End Sub
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2 comments on “Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Workbook Creation Date
  1. Vitezslava says:

    Thanks you for Tom’s Tutorials For Excel. It helps me a lot.

    User from Czech Republic

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