Outlook 2007 WordMail Editor and Document Properties

[Tim Pulley]

We have an Office add-in that stores data in custom document properties. For
consistency we'd like to store the data in the same location on Outlook
items. While I can retrieve the document object and modify both the built-in
and custom document properties, the changes are lost when I close the
Outlook item. From my tests it appears that document properties are
unsupported since they are not present in the item's property inspector and
only a few of the built-in document properties are ever set. Is this
assumption correct or have missed something?


Tim

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Use Outlook UserProperties for that or if you want them invisible to the
user use PropertyAccessor to add MAPI named properties for that storage.
Don't use Word properties, the Word dll used for WordMail 2007 is not a full
featured subclassing of Word.exe as it was in earlier versions of WordMail.

 

[Tim Pulley]

Ken,

Thanks for the confirmation and info. I just wanted to make sure that I
hadn't missed something.

Tim