[python-win32] Excel / Word: setting properties

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Wed Feb 28 12:20:03 EST 2018


Niemann, Hartmut wrote:
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> I create an excel document using the COM interface.
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> Now I need to set two properties to be compatible with a new company rule:
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> “[the tool] uses MS Office standard (‘Keyword’) and custom (‘Document
> Confidentiality’) properties. so if your code is able
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> to preset values to these properties [everything should work]”
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> How do I set the [Excel workbook] standard property “Keywords” to
> “C_Restricted” and the user property “Document Confidentiality” to
> “Restricted”?
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The Document object should have a BuiltinDocumentProperties collection
and a CustomDocumentProperties collection that you can query and
manipulate.  You'll have to discover whether the properties you need to
tweak are builtin or not.

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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