SharePoint & templates/metadata

Hi! We have 50 odd word templates (not embedded in sharepoint) which have content control boxes embedded in them. in sharepoint we have the columns set up to reflect these control boxes(drop down ...

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Anonymous
Nov 22, 2017
Typically it works the other way around, I don't think you can have the control fields and update the other way.

Create the SharePoint document library, add the fields for meta data, add word to the library, and update the metadata for that document, then in Word add those fields to Word document using the Document Property quickparts.

In addition to this, the latest version of Word it appears as a panel as well as embedded into the document.

Anonymous

Nov 22, 2017

Typically it works the other way around, I don't think you can have the control fields and update the other way.

Create the SharePoint document library, add the fields for meta data, add word to the library, and update the metadata for that document, then in Word add those fields to Word document using the Document Property quickparts.

In addition to this, the latest version of Word it appears as a panel as well as embedded into the document.

melanie ashton

Copper Contributor

Dec 05, 2017

Thanks so much for that! got it to work :)

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