Is there a way to get Word 2007 to automatically prompt the user to fill out a document summary when

[Musawwir Spiegel]

In Word 95, which I used before switching to Word 2007, there was a
setting that caused the program to prompt the user to fill out a
document summary when saving a new document. I found those summaries
very useful when searching for particular documents.

In Word 2007 I can see no such setting, so I have to remember to
resort to the "Prepare" option in the "Office" button.

Is there such a setting in Word 2007?

Also, when one does access the properties via the Prepare option, when
the properties appear above the document there are text boxes to enter
such things as the title (for web purposes), subject, comments, etc.
However, if you enter text into those text boxes they are not
preserved. The only way to preserve them appears to be via clicking
on the "advanced properties" dropdown and then the "summary" tab in
the advanced properties and enter your information there. This
appears to me to be a stupid bug in Word 2007. Am I missing something
here?

Musawwir Spiegel
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks for that, Jay. I also miss the "Prompt for document properties"
feature. There is a setting in Word 2007 that appears superficially similar,
but it turns out to be something vastly different and unwanted.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Musawwir Spiegel]

Thank you Jay for your elegant solution to this problem. I am still
in the process of learning VBA [having pretty much mastered WordBasic
years ago], so it is of great help to me to have your code for this.

I don't understand why Microsoft would have elimitated the setting by
which one could decide whether to have this feature. But then I can't
really understand why they replaced the menu choices with the [to me]
very confusing Ribbon feature either.

Could you please address the second part of my question, which also
dealt with the saving of document properties:

"Also, when one does access the properties via the Prepare option,
when the properties appear above the document there are text boxes to
enter such things as the title (for web purposes), subject, comments,
etc. However, if you enter text into those text boxes they are not
preserved. The only way to preserve them appears to be via clicking
on the 'advanced properties' dropdown and then the 'summary' tab in
the advanced properties and enter your information there. This
appears to me to be a stupid bug in Word 2007. Am I missing something
here?"

Musawwir

 

[Jay Freedman]

The properties pane that appears when you click Prepare > Properties is intended mostly for use with SharePoint and/or InfoPath. If you have neither of those, ignore this pane and use only the older
dialog.