I would like to get metadata from an excel file. I would also like to know if I could examine metadata of the user or the computer which made this modification. Where I have to look for?
Can you help us help you by providing more information? Just some little things are required to even begin to answer What OS? And what version of Excel?
Also can you tell us what user metadata or computer metadata you would like to examine?
Further what steps have you taken so far to look at any of the metadata?
It would be very helpful to know in which version of Excel the spreadsheet was created. Is it .xls or .xlsx? The two file formats contain very different data, although you can get a good deal of data from both formats using ExifTool.
They are .xls files. And I would like to see if these files were modified and if I could find the dates of the modification.
Have you opened the file in Excel and looked at the metadata?
AFAIK, the General tab shows Windows timestamps; the Statistics tab shows "actual" timestamps - the time you opened the file will be the last access time in both these tabs
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They are .xls files. And I would like to see if these files were modified and if I could find the dates of the modification.
Well, like I said, check out ExifTool…