Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Printing Document Properties.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated November 17, 2018)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Besides your text and formatting information, Word also saves other information with your documents. This "other information" is often referred to as document properties. These properties are used to identify items such as the filename, the author, dates associated with the document, and statistics such as word and character counts. (You can access document properties by choosing Properties from the File menu.)
You can instruct Word to print a page containing your document properties whenever you print your document. Simply follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Print tab of the Options dialog box.
When actually printing and the Print dialog box is displayed, you can also change this setting by clicking on the Options button.
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This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here:
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