Nope, In Word it still shows the time I saved the attachment. as Created and Modified. However it does show Feb 5th as last time it was printed. Anyone know why the Created/Modified time is lost in an e-mail attachment? These properties are part of the file system, not the file itself. When a file is attached to a mail message, there are no standard ways to carry this extra information along. The above notwithstanding, it's not clear that these properties should be carried along: to the file system, they are, in fact, different files and each should have their own creation/modification dates. Craig