Article ID: 195007
Article Last Modified on 3/2/2001
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q195007
SUMMARY
When you save a document in Word 2000, certain document properties are
automatically populated.
MORE INFORMATION
To view the document properties, click
Properties on the
File menu.
When the document is saved, the
Title, by default, is populated with the
first line of text from the document.
The
Author, by default, is populated with the name that appears on the
User
Information tab (on the
Tools menu, click
Options).
The
Company, by default, is populated by the company name that was used
when Word 2000 was installed.
To work around these default settings, follow these steps:
All Document Properties
To make sure that all document properties are saved with the properties
that you need, on the
Tools menu, click
Options. Click the Save tab and
select the
Prompt for document properties option. When you save the
document, you can change the
Title,
Author, and
Company to the settings you
want for that particular document.
Title Property
You can set the default title for the Normal template or any template you
are using by opening the template and changing the
Title under
Properties (on the
File menu) to reflect the title you want when a document is saved.
To modify the template, follow these steps:
- On the File menu, click Open.
- In the Files of type list, click Document Templates.
- Go to the User Template directory or to the directory where the
Normal.dot file is located. The default location is:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates
- Click the Normal.dot icon, and then click Open.
- On the File menu, click Properties.
- In the Title field, type the title you want, or type spaces for a blank title.
- Save and close the template.
Author Property
You can set the default author by changing the name on the
User Information
tab.
- On the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the User Information tab.
- Change the name to the author name you want.
NOTE: You can place spaces in the
Name field to have the name blank when the document is saved.
Company Name Property
For additional information about changing the default company property information, click the article number below
to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
244086 WD2000: How to Change the Company Property Information
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