preventing word from saving title info in template?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you have "Prompt to save document properties" checked on the Save tab of
Tools | Options, you'll be given a chance to alter the properties, but the
general principle is this:

1. If there is a title in the template on which the document is based, it
will be used as the title of the document.

2. Otherwise, the first text in the document (up to the first punctuation
mark or line break) will be used.

You might try saving the template with a single space in the Title field and
see if that helps.

 

[Carl LaFong]

When looking in folder in Windows explorer, running the cursor over a
random document shows several pieces of information, including type, author,
title, date, and size.

In Word 97 documents that I have created, the title usually is the first
line of the text within the document. This is unrelated to the name of the
file. In some cases, documents I have created show nothing next to the
title, but I have no idea why. In some cases, the title is the first line
from an earlier version of the document, not as it now exists on my hard
drive.

I prefer to have nothing shown saved or shown next to "title" for all Word
docs, regardless of who I send them to or what their personal configuration
settings might be. I am NOT referring to simply turning off the display of
the title. I want to keep the title from being saved at all.

I have received documents from others that display nothing next to title, so
it is obviously possible to save a document without a title. How do they do
it?

Can this be done by fiddling with the normal template? I see similar
behavior in other applications, but am primarily interested in Word 97.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Carl LaFong]

If you have "Prompt to save document properties" checked on the Save tab
of Tools | Options, you'll be given a chance to alter the properties, but
the general principle is this:

1. If there is a title in the template on which the document is based, it
will be used as the title of the document.

2. Otherwise, the first text in the document (up to the first punctuation
mark or line break) will be used.

You might try saving the template with a single space in the Title field
and see if that helps.

Suzanne:

Thanks much for that. The single space in the title field of the normal.dot
template did the trick.