Identifying Templates, Styles, and Status of Track Changes

Applies to: Word 2003

What if you wanted to know...

• what templates were attached to your most-recently used documents?
• if your newly-named firm was represented in all of your templates?
• you needed a list of style names used across a collection of precedent documents?
• you wanted to identify whether active work product uses track changes?

The answer to these - and many other "I need to know" questions - can be discovered using DocXamine's new Single-Property Discover and Aggregated Analysis features. Here's how:

1. Launch DocXamine.
2. Right-click and create a New Project.
3. Right-click and create a New Collection.
4. Right-click and add files from your DMS, or file system, depending on the location of the work product you want to examine.
5. Click on one of the Word document names listed in the collection, then choose "Select Properties".
6. To discover the answers to all of these questions, uncheck "Discovery Collections" and:
• Template names: expand the "Document" group, check the "DxDocAttachedTemplate" property;
• Company name consistent in templates: expand the "BuiltinDocProperties" group, and check the "DxBuiltinDocPropertyCompany" property.
• Style names used across a template/precendent collection: expand the "Styles" group, and check the "DxStyleName" property.
• Track changes used: check the "Revisions" group.
7. Click OK. Activate discover of all documents in the collection by clicking on your New Project name, list in the Project Builder pane. Launch your analysis from the Navigation Pane by clicking on "Discover Properties".
8. When complete, choose "Evaluation" from the top menu bar, and select "Aggregated Analysis". Your results in aggregate will be displayed.
9. Save the results with a right-click, "Select All", then copy and paste into a Word document or Excel spreadsheet.

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