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Find creation date of Excel Workbook

I am opening Excel workbooks use VBA in Access.  I want to get the original creation date of the workbook, but what I am getting is the date is was moved to the current folder.


Dim WkBk As Excel.Workbook
Set WkBk = ExcelApp.Workbooks.Open(filename:=WbkPathName)
WkBk.BuiltinDocumentProperties("Creation Date")

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I tried using this, but it causes an error:

WkBk.BuiltinDocumentProperties.items("Creation Date").Value

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Access 2003
Excel 2010
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If it's the active workbook, try this:

ActiveWorkbook.BuiltinDocumentProperties("Creation Date")

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ActiveWorkbook.BuiltinDocumentProperties("Creation Date") also returns today's date.  Today is the day I saved it to my computer.
The original creation date is back in August, and can be seen on the Statistics tab of the property box.
CORRECTION -- The date on the Statistics tab is today's date.  The date on the general tab is back in August.
I already tried that.  Didn't work.
I have discovered the only way to get the original creation date is to use the FileSystemObject.

Option Compare Database
Option Explicit
Function getCreationDate(strCompleteFilePath As String) As Date
    Dim objFileSystem       As Object
    Dim objFile             As Object
    Set objFileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    If objFileSystem.FileExists(strCompleteFilePath) Then
        Set objFile = objFileSystem.GetFile(strCompleteFilePath)
        getCreationDate = objFile.DateCreated
    Else
        MsgBox "The specified file '" & strCompleteFilePath & "' does not exist.",    vbInformation, "Creation Date"
    End If
    Set objFile = Nothing
 End Function
 Function getOpnWbkCreationDate(wbkOpened As Workbook) As Date
     getOpnWbkCreationDate = wbkOpened.BuiltinDocumentProperties("Creation Date")
 End Function
 Sub ExecuteFunc()
     MsgBox getCreationDate(ThisWorkbook.FullName)
    MsgBox getOpnWbkCreationDate(ThisWorkbook)
End Sub

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I correct myself again.  Even using the FSO, sometimes the original creation day is captured, other times it is not.  Very confusing.
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