In Windows Explorer I cannot see or find Excel Properties "Keywords",
"Category", or "Subject". I have spent a lot of time looking around in
Windows Explorer Search, including advanced options. I don't see it.
Excel 2007
Windows XP
Where is it? I would very much like to search a directory and find all the
spreadsheets with a certain keyword entered in properties. (Cheapo document
management!)

KIM

"greg" wrote:

Excel has properties it stores.
keyword, author, comments, etc.........
In windows explorer you can see these properties.
How does it do that without opening the file?
Can you read these files without opening the files?
Can you read custom properties, without opening the file?
thanks

If you go into a folder, then you right click on the "name" bar. then click
"more...."
you will see keywords.
But it does not always seem to show the right data in.



"KIM W" wrote in message
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In Windows Explorer I cannot see or find Excel Properties "Keywords",
"Category", or "Subject". I have spent a lot of time looking around in
Windows Explorer Search, including advanced options. I don't see it.
Excel 2007
Windows XP
Where is it? I would very much like to search a directory and find all
the
spreadsheets with a certain keyword entered in properties. (Cheapo
document
management!)

KIM

"greg" wrote:

Excel has properties it stores.
keyword, author, comments, etc.........
In windows explorer you can see these properties.
How does it do that without opening the file?
Can you read these files without opening the files?
Can you read custom properties, without opening the file?
thanks

Thanks for the reply. I don't understand the instructions. Could you be
more explicit? What is a "name" bar?

I have clicked around in Explorerer and Search for half an hour now (and
previously) and cannot find anything referring to search on keywords I enter
in a document''s properties.

"greg" wrote:

If you go into a folder, then you right click on the "name" bar. then click
"more...."
you will see keywords.
But it does not always seem to show the right data in.



"KIM W" wrote in message
...
In Windows Explorer I cannot see or find Excel Properties "Keywords",
"Category", or "Subject". I have spent a lot of time looking around in
Windows Explorer Search, including advanced options. I don't see it.
Excel 2007
Windows XP
Where is it? I would very much like to search a directory and find all
the
spreadsheets with a certain keyword entered in properties. (Cheapo
document
management!)

KIM

"greg" wrote:

Excel has properties it stores.
keyword, author, comments, etc.........
In windows explorer you can see these properties.
How does it do that without opening the file?
Can you read these files without opening the files?
Can you read custom properties, without opening the file?
thanks