Showing Document Properties

[dlbd]

Hi
I am using Windows XP and opened my documents. If I hold
my mouse over the documents - it gives me the
Type/Size/Date of the Word Document. I want like to also
see the Title and Author.

How can I change it so I can see them.
TIA

 

[Rob Schneider]

Hi
I am using Windows XP and opened my documents. If I hold
my mouse over the documents - it gives me the
Type/Size/Date of the Word Document. I want like to also
see the Title and Author.

How can I change it so I can see them.
TIA

I've never run across a way to see more in the "pop-up". It's probably
hard-coded. Although there may be a "tweak" for it somewhere by
somebody. If you right-mouse click on the file, select Properties, you
get a richer list. YOu can also in Explorer use View/Choose Details to
control what details shown on the right-side pane.

 

[dlbd]

In the summary I have the title and author of the
document filled in. I know I can right click it and come
up with the properties I am looking for but want it on
the hoover over function. Make sense?

 

[Bob Campbell]

This is how it works for me. Each property and only the properties I've
filled in, show up in the tooltip when I hover over the document. I'm using
Windows XP SP1 and Office XP (2002). Interestingly, it doesn't seem to be
the same for you. I don't know why.

 

[Keith Miller]

My documents do show that info when the cursor hovers over them. I believe it comes from:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*

select this key in the registry and see if you have a value named 'infotip' in the right-hand pane.
It is a REG_SZ type and should have a value of:

prop:Type;DocAuthor;DocTitle;DocSubject;DocComments;Write;Size

Keith
Please reply to newsgroup

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am using Windows XP and opened my documents. If I hold
my mouse over the documents - it gives me the
Type/Size/Date of the Word Document. I want like to also
see the Title and Author.

If those have been set in the documents internal Properties (As set in
File - Properties in Word) then they ought to appear in the popup,
provided Folder Options - View is set to 'show popup descriptions for
folder and desktop items'. If they don't for a document which shows
them when looking in Word (fields will not be shown if they contain
nothing) , you probably need to ask in the appropriate Office group