File Properties Summary automation...

Hello:

I have a library of nearly 3000 files that I would like to add custom
Summary metadata to...i.e., the
"Title", "Subject", "Author", "Category", "Keywords", and "Comments" fields
that are available in the Summary page of the file properties dialog.

Is there a way to automate this process using batch files or scripting? Is
there a freeware app available to do this?


Thanks,

Fred Schreck
San Francisco, CA

Hi, Fred,

You need to adapt the code in the article
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm, which shows how to
open, work on, and save/close each file in a directory. In place of the find
& replace operations in that code, you need to set values for the various
members of the BuiltInDocumentProperties collection -- see the VBA help
topic about that collection.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word

Fred Schreck wrote:
Hello:

I have a library of nearly 3000 files that I would like to add custom
Summary metadata to...i.e., the
"Title", "Subject", "Author", "Category", "Keywords", and "Comments"
fields that are available in the Summary page of the file properties
dialog.

Is there a way to automate this process using batch files or
scripting? Is there a freeware app available to do this?


Thanks,

Fred Schreck
San Francisco, CA

Hi Fred,

If *all* you are wanting to read and change is the document properties of
the various files, then you may be able to speed up this process by using
techniques described in this article

Getting access to the Document Properties of a Word file
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DSOFile.htm

That article includes a template you can download that will read the
properties of a folder full of files and list them. However, it would only
require a fairly small change to the code to set any properties you want to
set.

--
Regards
Jonathan West - Word MVP
MultiLinker - Automated generation of hyperlinks in Word
Conversion to PDF & HTML
http://www.multilinker.com



"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hi, Fred,

You need to adapt the code in the article
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm, which shows how to
open, work on, and save/close each file in a directory. In place of the
find
& replace operations in that code, you need to set values for the various
members of the BuiltInDocumentProperties collection -- see the VBA help
topic about that collection.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word

Fred Schreck wrote:
Hello:

I have a library of nearly 3000 files that I would like to add custom
Summary metadata to...i.e., the
"Title", "Subject", "Author", "Category", "Keywords", and "Comments"
fields that are available in the Summary page of the file properties
dialog.

Is there a way to automate this process using batch files or
scripting? Is there a freeware app available to do this?


Thanks,

Fred Schreck
San Francisco, CA