||| "Szafranski" <
[email protected]>
||| wrote in message
[email protected]
||| I want to view Company Name in Windows Explorer. I
||| select DETAILS and I can see NAME, SIZE, TYPE, DATE
||| MODIFIED, COMPANY. The only field that does not
||| display text is COMPANY. However, I verified that the
||| information is entered onto the file type by right
||| clicking on the file and looking at the SUMMARY tab to
||| make sure Company Name is entered. It is. I can't
||| seem to get Company to display in Windows Explorer.
||| Please HELP!
|| "Carrie Garth" <
[email protected]>
|| wrote in message || The Windows Explorer column titled Company is not the same as
|| the Company Property you see on, for example, a Microsoft
|| Word Documents' File Properties Summary tab. <SNIP>
|| To view the value <SNIP> use the Microsoft Outlook Integrated
|| File Management Advanced Find component (finder.exe).
|| Just add the Company field to the view, if necessary.<SNIP>
|| For some information about finder.exe, search Microsoft
|| Outlook Help <SNIP>
| <
[email protected]>
| wrote in message | Carrie,
| Thank you for informing me of the difference between the
| two properties. However, I still am not clear as to why
| I would need to use Outlook's Advanced Find to view the
| Company Field in Microsoft Word Document Properties.
| This is what I really want to view.
|
| I have Windows XP with Office 2003 and I opened Outlook
| and went into the Advanced Find. I click on Options in
| Outlook, then on Advanced Find and it relates only to
| Microsoft Outlook - not Microsoft Word.
I apologize for the confusion....
The Company column that you want to view (technically, the
property name of the column docCompany), is not one of the
predefined columns that Microsoft Windows Explorer can show.
According to an expert, Dino Esposito, you can define a custom
column, such as the docCompany column, by writing and
registering a shell extension called a column handler. I am not a
software developer, though, so I cannot help you with that. Sorry.
For more information see:
MSDN Magazine, March 2000
Windows 2000 UI Innovations: Enhance Your User's Experience
with New Infotip and Icon Overlay Shell Extensions
By Dino Esposito
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0300/w2kui/default.aspx
Another way to "view the Company Field in Microsoft Word
Document Properties" is to use an application that can show the
docCompany column. An application that can show this column is
the Microsoft Outlook Integrated File Management Advanced Find
component (finder.exe).
Say, for example, that the file in question is a Microsoft Word
Document (*.doc) and it is saved in your My Documents folder.
To "view the Company Field in Microsoft Word Document
Properties" with finder.exe you would:
- Open Outlook
- Select [menu bar] Tools | Advanced Find
- For the "Look for:" option click the upside-down triangle and
select: Files
- For the "In:" option make certain that "My Documents" is selected
- Click the "Find Now" button
- Select [menu bar] View | Current View | Customize Current
View
- Click the button labled: Fields
- For the "Select available fields from:" option click the upside-
down triangle and select: All File Fields
- From the "Available Fields" list select: Company
- Click the "Add" button
- Click OK, twice
- Notice that finder.exe is display the value of the docCompany
property in the column named Company
