Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003

Using Document Properties to Simplify Document Management

In Chapter 3, “Essential Document Creation and Management Techniques,” you learned about Word's powerful capabilities for finding files, which are accessible by choosing Tools, Find from within the Open dialog box. You may recall that one of the ways Word can search for files is by document property. This section takes a closer look at document properties and shows you how to use them to your advantage—whether you're responsible for one desktop or many.

To work with document properties, choose File, Properties. The Properties dialog box opens (see Figure 34.7).

Figure 34.7. You can review a document's properties (and edit many of them) by displaying the Properties dialog box.

This dialog ...