Builtin Document Properties (VBA/Word/2000)

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With the userform I have created – I’d like to pass certain values to the built-in document properties. Mainly, author, title, comments and keywords. However, I find that the built-in doc properties are read-only. Is there another way to attack this?

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Author and Title, at least, definitely are read/write. Is there some kind of protection on the document?

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Hmmm, I assumed they are read only after looking at the help file. Perhaps I misinterpreted. The document is not protected.
How would you place a value in the Author property (for example)?

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Try something like:

ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties(wdPropertyAuthor) = “Yours Truly”

Check in the helpp for BuiltInDocumentProperties for a full list of constants.

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Here is what I’ve been trying:
With ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties
.wdPropertyAuthor = AuthorName.Text – These are the names of the text
.wdPropertyTitle = TopicTitle.Text boxes on my form
.wdPropertyComments = TopicDescription.Text
.wdPropertyKeywords = ProdTitle.Text
End With

And here is the error message I’m getting.

Suggestions?

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Catherine,

Your code sample does not follow the “template” which Geoff provided – the “wdPropertyAuthor” for example needs to be in parentheses and directly follow “BuiltInDocumentProperties” i.e.:

ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties(wdPropertyAuthor) = AuthorName.Text ‘ etc.

Also, this code is only going to work if it is located in the userform’s code module (not in a regular code module), and it needs to be in an event procedure such as the Click event for a command button.

Gary

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Hey – what do you know – I followed directions and it worked!

Thanks for expanding on Geoff’s answer.

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