All files have these three dates if you check out their properties in
Windows Explorer so this is not an Excel issue. While someone here may know
how a file can be modified before it is created (as the first file I looked
at just now was) this question might better be asked/researched in a Windows
forum.

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Jim
"Don" wrote in message
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| On the Properties menue , I want to find out what the three dates are :
| Created , Modified and accessed. the file I am looking at has Accessed
less
| than created and modified and that is not what I would have thought any
| help?
|
| thanks
|
| Created:
| Modified:
| Accessed: