Document properties (2002/SR2)

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Hi –

Is there a way to have the Doc Properties dialog box default to the “General” tab? It seems to default to the last chosen tab.
Thank you.

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The first time you open the Properties dialog after starting Word, it will open to the Summary tab. During the rest of the session, Word will remember which tab you last used. I think that suits most users. I don’t see a way to force Word to display the General tab.

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Thank you.

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The following macro code seems to work for me (using Word 2002):

SendKeys “+{TAB}{LEFT 4}”
WordBasic.FileProperties
AppActivate “Microsoft Word”

However:
1. This sometimes causes a fair amount of screen updating, which setting ScreenUpdating to False doesn’t seem to prevent.
2. If the dialog is cancelled, an error is generated. I presume it’s possible to prevent that, but I haven’t tried to do so.
3. I don’t know if it’s possible to replace the built-in File | Properties command.

William

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Clever use of Left!
(I had tried Ctrl+Tab, but that acts cyclically across the tabs, so you can’t stop at the first tab).

You could add a line

On Error Resume Next

at the beginning of the macro to suppress error messages.

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3. I don’t know if it’s possible to replace the built-in File | Properties command.

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Word does offer the ActiveDocument.BuiltinProperties collection, but the created/modified/accessed information doesn’t exactly match the file information on the General tab, which might be gathered fresh from the file system.

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Naming the macro FileProperties seems to do the trick.

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Apparently I completely misunderstood what you meant. “Never mind!”

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