Metadata in Word documents
Why and how to add metadata to a word document.
This advice is also relevant to other Microsoft Office documents, such as Excel and Powerpoint.
Why
Adding metadata to your microsoft word document is beneficial because:
- as the content specialist you choose a succinct, meaningful description and keywords;
- it saves time converting to HTML or PDF as the Online Team simply carry that information over to the web document as part of the conversion process.
What to add
- Title
- apply the same principles used for HTML titles
- Subject
- apply the same principles used for HTML description
- Author
- apply the same principles used for HTML creators
- Keywords
- apply the same principles used for HTML keywords
How
In Word click on File > Properties > Summary and complete as many fields as possible.
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