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#CUSTOM DOCUMENT PROPERTIES WORD 2016 UPDATE#
So if you now only update the properties, it will also be updated in the document itself. It saves the values also into the library. If you now save this document into the library, the next cool part will be displayed: There is in fact a bi-directional connection between document information and of course of the content of the file. If you insert values into the document information panel or in the word file into the grey selected fields it does not matter. We can add a new document by using the new document command in the ribbon. Well, let’s have a look at the shared document library. The update will effect all child content types. Now upload your template and click on save. Therefore go to site settings – site content types – your content type – advanced settings. The next step is to upload this template again into the site content type. Now save this template again locally on your computer. There you’ll find a list with all document properties which you can choose.Īs you can see now values from document information panel are displayed in the word content and vice versa. Therefore we click into the cell for language and the click on the ribbon “INSERT” and choose Quick Parts and the document property. It does not matter where you change the values. So that the metadata will be displayed in the document information panel and in the word file itself. Now we connect the metadata into the word document. Now go to your library and click on Documents – New Document – Ilikedocs (your content type). Step 6: Create new Document and connect Metadata Click on advanced settings and allow managing content types.Īfter that i added my new created site content type and deleted the default “document” content type.
Afterwords it should be inserted and look like this: Go into the advanced settings of your site content type (Site Settings – Site content types – your content type). Step 4: Connect Word template with Content type I also created a table where i put some placeholders for the three site columns but didn’t insert anything.
#CUSTOM DOCUMENT PROPERTIES WORD 2016 ZIP#
I added existing site columns: language, department and ZIP postal Code. Go to site settings – content types and click on create new site content type. It also will be saved into the sharepoint columns.īut what do you have to do to set this up? And of course vice versa – if you change values in the word content, it also will be updated in the metadata.
For example if you choose a department, this value can also be inserted automatically into the word content. It can also reference the metadata from content type into the word document. So you can create a nice word template with header and logo and now the cool part.
The cool point is, if you are using content types which are from type document, you can also define a word template or other document templates. So therefore you create a content type and define the specific columns (metadata). A contract has different properties as a proposal. The advantage is, that you can define content types which have specific properties. In SharePoint it is possible to use content types in document libraries.
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