Controlled vocabulary for custom properties-2 questions

[Guest]

1. Is there a way of populating or migrating terms to the Custom Properties
or keywords field of a Word Document? We would like to use a drop down menu
of terms chosen from a controlled thesaurus (Access DB or ?).

2. Is there a way to apply keywords or Custom properties to several
documents at once? (Perhaps moving them to a folder that as these properties
so that they cascade down?)
Thanks.
Sheila

 

[Jezebel]

1. No, there's no access to that damnable list of default custom properties.
But they are only suggestions, anyway.

2. To set up a specific list of properties, add them to the template you're
using: documents created from the template will inherit them.

3. There's no bulk update function for properties provided with Word. There
are macros that do it, and quite a number of document management products
that do it also.