Paul,

Thanks for your offer, not sure how to attach a doc to a forum message.

In the meantime, I have been experimenting with this and below are steps, results and solutions that I have found in this area. When I use the term "body text", it includes either table or non-table source data. Have found no difference in either source.

1. Enter some text in a property field. Select that text. Copy and Paste (standard) into the body area. Result: Body text is copied but is encapsulated a rectangle box (not a text box). This box will be printed along with the text. Solution: Select the boxed body text; Home tab, Font, Click on Clear Formatting icon upper, right.
2. Like 1 but Paste Special (unformatted text). Result and Solution same as 1.
Note: interesting in that once the boxed data appears in the body, all other line feeds will continue the boxing of directly entered data.
3.Enter text in a new document body. Select the text; Copy and Paste (standard) into a property field. Result: Text entered into the property field but the source body text is delineated by brackets. These brackets do not print. As you noted Paul, this indicates the text is bookmarked. Solution (as you suggested): Select the bracketed text. Select the Insert tab. Click the Bookmark icon. A Bookmark window lists all the bookmarks. Find the two that relate to this bookmark and delete from the table.
4. This is interesting! Like 3; however, Paste Special (unformatted text). Make sure the cursor is in the desired property box. Do the paste. Result: the body text is not pasted into the selected property field but into the body where the cursor was last set! Solution: None.
The purpose of this activity is based on the fact I am a heavy user of Metadata. I try to be consistent in the what field is used with what type of information. This leads to having an example pattern for each file's field of use. Copy example from body text reference file to property fields. Sometimes, I find it useful to go the other direction; copy a property field data into my reference document for future use.

This is another problem that may not belong here, but does anyone know of any WORD to PDF convertor that does not place quotes around the keyword set in the resultant PDF document? With quotes around the complete set, cannot do single word searches. Must go into the resultant PDF document and remove the quotes each time.

Any of these problems fixed in Word2012?