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Word maintains a number of different properties related to your documents, as a whole. You can see what these properties are by choosing Properties from the File menu. You can even use the Custom tab to create your own custom properties for your documents.
Inserting the values of properties into a document is done using different fields. Pre-defined properties have their own corresponding fields. For instance, if you want to insert a document's creation date into your text, you do so using the CreateDate field.
What you may not know is how to insert in your document values assigned to custom properties. In order to do this, let's assume you have created a custom property named MyProp. To insert the value of this property in your document, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Field dialog box.
Figure 2. The Field Options dialog box.
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2017-09-08 10:49:22
Beth McLaughlin
I have a transcription company. We create a new template for every client. Most of our documents are interviews. I'd like to add a Date of Interview property that will populate the first page under the title, the subsequent page header, and document metadata. How do I do that?
2015-11-26 02:26:21
hi,
i can create HTML page by saving word document as webpage but i want to insert values in that webpage from browser, is that possible and if yes let me know how?
2015-08-18 06:48:25
Balakrishna
Hi,
I have created Document property, some cases i my value will going beyond 255 character. but the value text box is tacking only 255 charecter and after that it is trunkating extra charecter . hence my result is going wrong.can anyone solve my issue
2015-08-18 06:45:42
Balakrishna
Hi,
I have created Document property, but some cases i my value will going beyond 255 character. can anyone solve my issue
2015-04-17 11:03:06
Doe
I'm trying but I don't understand what the commenter above means by type a value. What does a value mean and how am I supposed to know what that value is?
2014-03-11 05:00:38
Saw
Presenting Noise Level in Word Field conditionally:
The maximum noise levels measured from the site boundary were 90 dB (A) (5mins period) and 70 db (A) (12Hrs period).
So, Noise levels recorded at the mentioned location were above the permissible limit for 5-mins period and within the permissible limit for 12-hr period.
Please help me with the above word field coding.
I want to change automatically the words, “above or within” according to the value of the results, i.e. for the noise levels measured in 5-mins period, 90 and above is considered “above the permissible limit” and below 90 is considered as “within permissible limit”.
So as the same for 12-hr period, 75 and above is “above the limit” and below 75 is “within the limit.
To get the above condition, I tried to write the field code as :
{IF {MERGEFIELD Text1} >= 90 “above” ”within”}
But, it never works.
Appreciate your help.
Saw
2013-04-03 10:01:31
terapin
If modifying - click modify button before clicking okay or it may not save the change.
2012-09-07 06:03:30
Nick P
Thanks
So good that you can provide online help when M$ can't!
2012-07-09 19:54:56
David B
Adding info in case someone else is looking for it:
To store a document property - go to file - properties - custom tab - type a name - type a value - click add.
2012-04-09 01:22:46
umut
can you please explain how you create this custom property ?
thanks,
"let's assume you have created a custom property named MyProp."
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