Dialog with Document Description

[Joseph N.]

How can I make all new documents pop up the document properties
dialog and require the user to add a document description?

 

[Bill Foley]

Try "Tools", "Options", "Save" TAB, check the "Prompt for document
properties".

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[Joseph N.]

Try "Tools", "Options", "Save" TAB, check the "Prompt for
document properties".

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?

 

[Joseph N.]

So, is there another way to get at the same result?

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?

 

[Bill Foley]

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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