How do I reset total editing time in properties?

This actually applies to most MS Office products. I will sometimes use one
document/ppt as a boilerplate to create a new one. Throughout time the
editing time has built up into the millions of minutes. I would like to
reset the editing time back to zero. I haven't seen anything in my
documentation or text books on how this can be done. Idea's???

I can't see a way to do this in the GUI (which doesn't necessarily mean there
isn't one!) this vba code seems to do the trick though in PowerPoint

Sub reset_edit()
ActivePresentation.BuiltInDocumentProperties.Item( "Total editing time") = 0
End Sub

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"D²" wrote:

This actually applies to most MS Office products. I will sometimes use one
document/ppt as a boilerplate to create a new one. Throughout time the
editing time has built up into the millions of minutes. I would like to
reset the editing time back to zero. I haven't seen anything in my
documentation or text books on how this can be done. Idea's???

In article , Dâ² wrote:
This actually applies to most MS Office products. I will sometimes use one
document/ppt as a boilerplate to create a new one. Throughout time the
editing time has built up into the millions of minutes. I would like to
reset the editing time back to zero. I haven't seen anything in my
documentation or text books on how this can be done. Idea's???

You could probably start a new presentation then use Insert, Slides, From File
to bring the slides in from your original.

Or you could use an extremely complex VBA macro:

Sub ExtremelyComplexMacro()
ActivePresentation.BuiltInDocumentProperties("Tota l Editing Time") = 0
End Sub

;-)

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