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I had a great idea to use a custom document property to store a “keyword”. The “keywords” builtin doc property is already being used for something else. This great idea will only work if I can do a search for the custom doc property. Word’s File Search gives me the ability to search on Some properties, and I can’t specify my custom document property.
Any ideas? Can I do this programmatically?
Word 2000 SR1
Windows 2000
Hi Karen,
You can manipulate custom document properties without opening the files, but I don’t know about changing the Find File method. You should be able to write a macro that would search all files in a given directory (and its subdirectories) for a given custom document property value. I am saying should because I haven’t done this. References to get you started:
How can I get access to the Document Properties of a Word file without opening the document?
How to use a single VBA procedure to read or write both custom and built-in Document Properties
How to Find & ReplaceAll on a Batch of Documents in the Same Folder
Hope these help. (Didn’t say it would be easy!) 
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