I would like to create MS Word templates with default document
properties.

We are a small group of consultants working on several different
projects with different customers. In the course of work we produce
meeting minutes, reports etc. In order to streamline our sharing
process, I would like to create template for different project with
some fields pre-populated for example, Subject (which could refer to
the Project title), client, etc. These documents could eventually be
search, extracted based on these fields. I tried hard coding the values
the saving the document as a .Dot but it does not produce the desired
result when new documents are created based on the templates. The
properties are empty. Can anyone point me to the right direction?

Thanks

Use custom properties. When creating the template, use Save As to create the
template.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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I would like to create MS Word templates with default document
properties.

We are a small group of consultants working on several different
projects with different customers. In the course of work we produce
meeting minutes, reports etc. In order to streamline our sharing
process, I would like to create template for different project with
some fields pre-populated for example, Subject (which could refer to
the Project title), client, etc. These documents could eventually be
search, extracted based on these fields. I tried hard coding the values
the saving the document as a .Dot but it does not produce the desired
result when new documents are created based on the templates. The
properties are empty. Can anyone point me to the right direction?

Thanks

Thanks, I wil give it a try.