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Custom. The Properties window of certain older Office documents

includes this tab, where you can look up a document’s word count,
author, revision number, and many other statistics. But you should
by no means feel limited to these 21 properties.

Using the Custom tab, you can create properties of your own—

Working Title, Panic Level, Privacy Quotient, or whatever you
like. Just specify a property type using the Type pop-up menu
(Text, Date, Number, Yes/No); type the property name into the

Name text box (or choose one of the canned options in its drop-
down menu); and then click Add.

You can then fill in the Value text box for the individual file in

question (so its Panic Level is Red Alert, for example).

Note

This is an older form of tagging files—a lot like the tags feature described on “Tags, Metadata,
and Properties”—except that you can’t use the Search feature to find them. Especially technical
people can, however, perform query-language searches for these values.

The Details tab reveals the sorts of details—tags, categories,

authors, and so on—that are searchable by Windows’ Search
command. For many kinds of files, you can edit these little tidbits
right in the dialog box.

This box also tells you how many words, lines, and paragraphs are
in a particular Word document. For a graphics document, the
Summary tab indicates the graphic’s dimensions, resolution, and

color settings.

The Previous Versions tab appears only if you’ve gone to the

extraordinary trouble of resurrecting Windows 7’s Previous
Versions feature, which lets you revert a document or a folder to an
earlier version.

Folders