BuiltinDocumentProperties Property

Microsoft Excel Visual Basic

Returns a DocumentProperties collection that represents all the built-in document properties for the specified workbook. Read-only.

Remarks

This property returns the entire collection of built-in document properties. Use the Item method to return a single member of the collection (a DocumentProperty object) by specifying either the name of the property or the collection index (as a number).

You can refer to document properties either by index value or by name. The following list shows the available built-in document property names:

Title

Subject

Author

Keywords

Comments

Template

Last Author

Revision Number

Application Name

Last Print Date

Creation Date

Last Save Time

Total Editing Time

Number of Pages

Number of Words

Number of Characters

Security

Category

Format

Manager

Company

Number of Bytes

Number of Lines

Number of Paragraphs

Number of Slides

Number of Notes

Number of Hidden Slides

Number of Multimedia Clips

Hyperlink Base

Number of Characters (with spaces)

Container applications aren’t required to define values for every built-in document property. If Microsoft Excel doesn’t define a value for one of the built-in document properties, reading the Value property for that document property causes an error.

Because the Item method is the default method for the DocumentProperties collection, the following statements are identical:

BuiltinDocumentProperties.Item(1)
BuiltinDocumentProperties(1)
		

Use the CustomDocumentProperties property to return the collection of custom document properties.

Example

This example displays the names of the built-in document properties as a list on worksheet one.

rw = 1
Worksheets(1).Activate
For Each p In ActiveWorkbook.BuiltinDocumentProperties
    Cells(rw, 1).Value = p.Name
    rw = rw + 1
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