MS office expert

valerian · 23 Aug 2010 at 17:03

is anyone on here, or does anyone know of anyone who is expert enough to do a report on the properties of a word document, for an employment tribunal, ie the author as shown in the properties, and that person would be need to be logged in and using a copy of word attributed to them, for it to show in the properties that they were the author
cheers

Azza · 23 Aug 2010 at 17:18

What?

So you're in trouble at work and you need to make proof that it wasn't you who made said document...

valerian · 23 Aug 2010 at 17:20

no but nearly,
my wife got sacked, and the chief exec said he had nowt to do with the decison, but the organisation sent an email with the dismissal letter attached, in word 2003, and the author in properties says it is the chief exec, i am trying to prove they are liars , which they are

Beerbaron · 23 Aug 2010 at 17:26

when you install office you put the name of the owner in. this appears on the docs that are created, although many installs of office could have the same name in corporate environments.

you could get another one of his documents and use stylometrics to compare them and see if they are the same author

nikebee · 23 Aug 2010 at 17:27

Well if you're going down that route, just because it was created on an account that says "Author: Joe Bloggs" doesn't mean Joe Bloggs physically typed it out of course, it just means it was created on that persons profile/PC.

Though that may be a bit far fetched.

nikebee · 23 Aug 2010 at 17:28

Beerbaron said:
when you install office you put the name of the owner in. this appears on the docs that are created, although many installs of office could have the same name in corporate environments.

you could get another one of his documents and use stylometrics to compare them and see if they are the same author

Actually this is also correct.

When office was installed on all the machines in the company, if they were all put under the CEO's name - then it could have been created anywhere in the building.

meghatronic · 23 Aug 2010 at 18:07

Every computer in my room has my bosses name on as 'owner', bar mine. So it's inconclusive I'm afraid. Not to mention it can be easily changed.

Or, even, they could be using a letter template he (or his secretary) authored.

kefkef · 23 Aug 2010 at 18:16

As meghatronic says, if i create a doc on my PC with the author kefkef and send it to someone, they can then delete all the text from that document, save it with their new content in it (and save it as a different name) and it will still show kefkef as the author, not the last person to 'amend' the original.

As you are talking about it being a chief exec, i would more than llikely expect it to be the case where somebody has just deleted the body of text from a different document/letter and used the empty 'shell' to put the new text in, saves having to set up headers/footers, name/address boxes, reference numbers etc.