Hi Greg,

Graham's code in post #2 above adds the properties to any documents that don't have them so, in that sense, it does matter. Graham says as much.

That wasn't the main thrust of my post, though, which was to address the OP's desire to dynamically update the properties in one or more related documents when the properties in one of them is changed. Word provides no means of doing this, though there are ways of doing it automatically (e.g. via a Document_Close macro), provided certain conditions are met.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]