Dialog with Document Description

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Joseph N.

How can I make all new documents pop up the document properties
dialog and require the user to add a document description?
 
Try "Tools", "Options", "Save" TAB, check the "Prompt for
document properties".
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Yes, normally that would work. But my situation is different
because there's another program and another process involved. I
have a document management system that opens and names new
documents based on *its* templates, which are .doc not .dot files.
The first time the actual document opens in Word for editing, it
is already named and saved. As I recall, it's in the course of
the first save that the procedure you suggested happens. So, is
there another way to get at the same result?
 
So, is there another way to get at the same result?
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Bill, I'm addressing the same issues with Word Pro, and the
solution there was to write a tiny script that opened the document
properties dialog when the document is opened. How can I do that
in Word, if that's the way to go?
 
You can get the dialog box for Summary Info to open automatically when
creating a new document based on a template, but it doesn't work for a
document (at least it didn't work with the AutoOpen macro. The code for
getting the dialog box to open when creating a new document based on a
template would be:

Sub AutoNew()
With Dialogs(wdDialogFileSummaryInfo)
.Show
End With
End Sub

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