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specific meta-date to all documents and information within a site collection
As Juan Carlos indicates you need to get the plumbing in place to make sure there is a column (e.g. Project) to capture the value (e.g. Project X) and it has a default value.
This is best done before users start adding content. Note: the above will only work for new items.
BTW: you can modify the view in Teams | Files to hide this column.
To add values to existing items open the SharePoint site, switch to classic mode and use quick edit to set the proper values.
Do check if the new column is indexed. Otherwise you will need to add it to the managed properties.
It would be useful to be able to be able to set a metadata value directly from the standard interface without switching to SharePoint and then changing to the classic view. This is not possible as far as I know.
Paul