Thank you. Our company works with a set of master documents that we use on
various projects. When a set of these master documents gets edited we "track
changes" and change the properties to indicate where and when this document
was created and copied. It is not always easy to remember to go to document
properties before closing the document.

I also stand corrected, I should have said save instead of open.

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Anne's suggestion will trigger the document properties dialog when a
document is saved for the first time. Try it again.

Otherwise, you would need an event handler (vba coding) to bring this dialog
up upon creating or opening a document, before the save. Seems like a lot of
trouble. What are you trying to accomplish by bringing them up when a
document is opened?
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"cbrit" wrote in message
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Thank you for your response. I know it was a feature in Word 2000 as it
took
us a while to figure out how to switch it off. However, I already did
your
suggestion and it doesn't work. The only time I can get Document
Properties
to appear is if I go to File/Properties.

"Anne Troy" wrote:

I don't believe this has ever been a feature ON OPEN. However, go to
Tools--Options--Save, and you can check it there.
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Anne Troy
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"cbrit" wrote in message
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I need to set Word to prompt for Properties everytime I open a document.
It
used to do this in Word 2000 but it doesn't appear to do it for Word
2003.
Does anyone know how to do this?