Thread-topic: Working with Word Document Properties
In regard to deletion of custom document properties in Word AppleScript, it appears that you've found a bug. You can work around this with the 'do Visual Basic' event:
tell application "Microsoft Word"
set vbCode to "ActiveDocument.CustomDocumentProperties(\"foo\").Delete"
do Visual Basic vbCode
end tell
I logged the 'delete' bug against Word AppleScript.
In regard to modifying values of built-in document properties, some of these are read-only. The ones you mention are among them. I think that the set of read-only document properties is documented anywhere. However, you can glean some information from the Properties dialog. If a property is in the Summary section, it's writable. If it's in the Statistics section, it's read-only.
The only programmatic way to tell that a property is read-only is to attempt to modify its value and read it back to see if the change stuck. You won't ever get an error trying to write to a read-only document property. (You get the same behavior from VB.)
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 23:26:42 -0700
From: David Glass <email@hidden>
Subject: Working with Word Document Properties
To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
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I'm trying to write a script that will strip as much of the metadata
out of a Word document as possible, and have run into a couple of snags.
1. Even though the Word (2004) dictionary shows 'get/set/delete' for
'custom document property' I am unable to actually delete any. I
receive an error that the custom document property doesn't understand
the delete message. Has anybody gotten this to work?
2. I can't seem to effect a change in the Revision number, Total time
edited, and a couple of other standard document properties. I don't
get an error when I try to modify their values, but the values don't
change. Any thoughts on if this is the proper behavior?
Thanks for any guidance.
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David Glass - Gray Matter Computing
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