Viewing and editing document properties With the Properties command, you can view the properties of docu- ments. You can view standard data and add your own meta data to a document. To view or edit properties 1 Choose File > Properties. The Properties dialog box contains the following tabs: General, Statistics, Summary, and Custom. 2 Click a tab to display its options. Use the procedures later in this section to edit the options, where applicable, then click OK to imple- ment the settings. Note: The document must be saved for some of its properties to be displayed. Choosing a property To view or customize a property, select a tab from the Properties dia- log box. General Describes general information about a saved document, such as type, location, size, attributes, when it was created, and when it was last modified. For Mac only, the Finder Comments box lets you view the comments that appear in the Finder’s Get Info comment window for the docu- ment. Statistics Displays when the document was created and when it was last modified. It also shows the last time the document was printed, the name of the person it was last saved by, the number of revisions, and the total editing time. The Statistics box contains information about the document and the objects contained in it. Note: The creation time can be different on the General and Statistics tabs. The Statistics tabs displays the date and time the document was created as a new document. The General tab displays the time it was first saved. Summary Lets you customize information about the document. You can enter a title, subject, author, manager, and company. In the Category and Keyword boxes, you can type data to categorize the document.
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