You can make your own Content Controls in the Developer Tab (you can enable it in Word Options). The text might or might not be the value of a "document property". What you are showing is a Content Control with some text in it. You may find it useful to have a look around his site, particularly this page:
There are several ways to show "repeating data" in Word documents. So which type of control you choose depends on what you are trying to achieve, and the environment you are working in. either not possible, or not easy, to include DOCPROPERTY fields in the dropdown. not possible to link a Content Control directly to the value of the old type of Custom Property.ī. That does not happen with DOCPROPERTY fields, and unfortunately it isĪ. Value is updated, the value in each of the linked Content Controls is updated automatically. If you have more than one content control linked to the same property value, when the property The thing about "Server Properties" and the other properties on the dropdown is that each Content Control is linked to a specific property held in the document's XML. However, without the server present, these properties do not work in quite the same way as the "real thing" - e.g., with the server present, there is more validation. Using VBA or other coding techniques, it is theoretically possible to set up "Server Properties" without either Sharepoint or InfoPath by creating some chunks of "Custom XML" (another reason why the word "Custom" is sometimes used for these properties). Sometimes they are referred to as "Server Properties" Unnaturally refer to them using the same name as the first sort. Introduced in Word 2007 (Company fax, etc.)Īrguably the first sort of Property is the "true" "Custom Document Property", but since the second sort are also described as "Document Properties" and can be user-created (by a SharePoint user), and do not seem to have a well-established name, people not However, not all the names in that dropdown are related to SharePoint properties - some are "Builtin" Properties such as Author, and others come from a special set of "Cover Page Properties" When you insert one of the Properties from this dropdown, Word inserts aĬontent Control that is linked to the value of the property. Their names then appear in the Document Property dropdown. When a document is opened from Sharepoint, Sharepoint inserts information about the names and values These are typically, but not necessarily, related to columns created in a SharePoint library. The new sort, which are the sort that Jaynet Zhang describes. These are not displayed in the "Document Property" drop down you display in your original post. The old sort, where you create/maintain them in the "Advanced Properties"->Custom dialog pane, and insert them usingĭOCPROPERTY fields.
There are now two sorts of "Custom Document Property" in Word: The following link is about “Design a Document Information Panel by using InfoPath”, but it is also applies to InfoPath 2007, you can refer: I have changed the steps in the above information for Word 2010. You can add custom properties to the Document Information Panel if you are using a property management server, such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and Office InfoPath.Built-in properties are never required for a document. The Required field flag appears only with properties that are bound to documents that are stored on property management servers.
Fill out the property information that you want to keep with your document.The Document Information Panel opens above your document. You can add some custom properties by clicking Advanced Properties in the upper left of the Document Information Panel, but the properties will not appear in the Document Information Panel or in the document itself.
The properties that appear in the Document Information Panel can't be changed unless you add custom properties by using a property management server or a Microsoft Office InfoPath form. Based on my research, this should be done with Microsoft Office InfoPath.