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Default Is it possible to get a date stamp from an Excel file?

Hi All

I am working on an automated backup scheme where my Excel
automatically makes a copy of itself every 7 days (although this is
configurable) in a seperate backup sub folder.

At the moment I record in the spreadsheet itself the date of the last
backup but this wont always work as sometimes a user will open the
spreadsheet in read-only - I still want to make the backup but I
cannot record the date of the backup in the spreadsheet.

So I think a better approach would be to look at the files in the
backup folder and find the one with the most recent date stamp - I can
then decide based on this date whether a new backup is required.

Is it possible in Excel VB to ask for the date stamp of all files in a
folder? Does anyone have some similar code?

Cheers and thanks in advance for any ideas,
Chrisso