Word 2000 in a Nutshell

Name

File → Properties

Synopsis

This command opens a property sheet for the active document. This dialog is divided into five tabs: General, Summary, Statistics, Contents, Custom. These tabs are covered in detail in the following sections.

General Tab

This tab is the basic Windows property sheet for the document file and shows the basic attributes of the file for the document, such as the filename, type, location, and size. The Word properties for a document (those on the other tabs described below) are only available from Windows if the document is not open in Word. If a document is open, only the General tab is displayed in Windows.

Summary Tab

This tab shows the basic attributes of the document itself, which can be used as criteria when searching for the file. Attributes include title, subject, author, manager, company, category, keywords, and comments. Any of these fields can be specified as search criteria when using File → Open → Tools → Find, as described earlier in this chapter.

A hyperlink base can also be defined on this tab, which is the URL that serves as a base for all hyperlinks created in the document. The hyperlink base can be an Internet address, a file location on a local system, or a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) address pointing to a location on a local network. When creating a document that will reference a number of documents in a folder named C:\My Documents\Brochures, enter that path as the hyperlink base. When creating a hyperlink in the document, you ...