Reading Word's Custom Properties without opening a doc?

["Rob Partridge" <rob -at- holly -dot- com -dot- au>]

Hi Guys,

I've got a whole bunch of Word docs spread over our network and I'm trying
to get some info on them without having to open them all one by one. I know
they all have titles and subtitles defined in Word's standard properties,
and have release dates, doc numbers etc stored as custom properties.

I've found that I can use an ActiveX DLL called dsofile.dll to read the
standard properties using oFilePropReader.GetDocumentProperties... - info
from Word MVP

But I don't think I can get at the custom properties that way. Anyone know
of how to get the custom properties? I want to be able to specify a path and
for my macro to scan the path for all word docs, then go through that list
and write the custom and standard properties to a new doc.

Any help welcome,

Rob


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