Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Whilst it may be interesting to know in theory what metadata can be used in Word documents, it may be different what document properties are actually used in real Word documents. To find this out, 994 Word documents were downloaded at random (see methodology), and the metadata extractor Filecats Professional has […]

Introduction My previous article discussed the various different metadata fields that are available in Microsoft Office documents. This article will discuss ways of accessing these fields in multiple documents. It will start with looking at VBA, and then talk about an easier way. Using Visual Basic for Applications As shown in the VBA article, it is possible to read document […]

Table of contents Page 1 Microsoft Office Document Properties (Metadata) – Introduction Page 2 Microsoft Word Properties – Introduction. Page 3 Accessing Microsoft Office Properties in the File Menu This Page Accessing MS Office Properties through VBA – see below. Page 5 Pictures and Photographs document properties Je voudrais lire ceci en français. Me gustaría leer esto en español. Ich […]

Metadata for a single file is easily visible from Microsoft Office – if you know how. Unfortunately, some of the more interesting options are not as accessible as they could be. Taking a Microsoft Word 2010 file as an example (however, the same procedure can be used in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint, and in Word 2007, 2013 and Office […]

Introduction Microsoft Word is one of the world most used programs, and its file formats (.doc, .docx and .docm) are widely used through the software world. However, there is a lot more to these formats than meet the eye. In addition to the words, formatting and other visible marks that the user inserts into a document, Microsoft also saves additional […]