Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007 and 2010. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Printing Document Properties.
Besides your text and formatting information, Word also saves other information with your documents. This "other information" is often referred to as document properties. These properties are used to identify items such as the filename, the author, dates associated with the document, and statistics such as word and character counts. (Other issues of WordTips have included instructions on how to change document properties.)
You can instruct Word to print a page containing your document properties whenever you print your document. Simply follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Display options of the Word Options dialog box.
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2018-03-13 16:57:49
Matt Wilcken
Does Word 2010 have a feature that allows the user to print Document Properties as the first sheet rather than after the body of the document is printed? I ask because my work involves printing several doc files and stapling the document properties page to the front of the print so that we all know what filename is associated with the printout. If we could print in descending order with the doc properties first, or ascending with the doc properties last but face up, the printer could automatically staple the doc properties as the first page and we could save ourselves a lot of time.
2015-04-29 09:03:54
KW
I tried this, but there is no change in what is printed with my document.
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