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Where are editing time, previously modified and created dates stored in the xml file of a word document and is it possible to edit it? I have found modified and created dates, but when I edit it, it changes to current time because I made a change to the document. Also, sometimes when I edit the created date, It is inconsistent with what shows when you click on the properties in file explorer (but is consistent in other tabs of properties). I have not found editing time, and have no idea how the time is formatted.
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Where are editing time, previously modified and created dates stored in the xml file of a word document and is it possible to edit it? I have found modified and created dates, but when I edit it, it changes to current time because I made a change to the document. Also, sometimes when I edit the created date, It is inconsistent with what shows when you click on the properties in file explorer (but is consistent in other tabs of properties). I have not found editing time, and have no idea how the time is formatted.

Word XML metadata editing

Extensible Markup Language (XML) refers to the encoding of documents such that they can be read by both machines and humans. XML documents use tags to show the beginning and end of a set of data. XML is used extensively on websites to show volumes of data, and is the default for a number of office productivity suites. This topic includes discussions of XML-related technologies, such as XQuery (the XML Query language), XPath (the XML Path language), XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), XLink (the XML Linking language) and XPointer (the XML Pointer language).

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.