DocumentProperties.Add Method

Creates a new custom document property.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.Core
Assembly:  office (in office.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Function Add ( _
    Name As String, _
    LinkToContent As Boolean, _
    Type As Object, _
    Value As Object, _
    LinkSource As Object _
) As DocumentProperty
'Usage
Dim instance As DocumentProperties
Dim Name As String
Dim LinkToContent As Boolean
Dim Type As Object
Dim Value As Object
Dim LinkSource As Object
Dim returnValue As DocumentProperty

returnValue = instance.Add(Name, LinkToContent, _
    Type, Value, LinkSource)

DocumentProperty Add(
    string Name,
    bool LinkToContent,
    Object Type,
    Object Value,
    Object LinkSource
)

Parameters

• Name
  Type: System.String

  Required String. The name of the property.

• LinkToContent
  Type: System.Boolean

  Required Boolean. Specifies whether the property is linked to the contents of the container document. If this argument is True, the LinkSource argument is required; if it's False, the value argument is required.

• Type
  Type: System.Object

  Optional Object. The data type of the property. Can be one of the following MsoDocProperties constants: msoPropertyTypeBoolean, msoPropertyTypeDate, msoPropertyTypeFloat, msoPropertyTypeNumber, or msoPropertyTypeString.

• Value
  Type: System.Object

  Optional Object. The value of the property, if it's not linked to the contents of the container document. The value is converted to match the data type specified by the type argument. If it can't be converted, an error occurs. If LinkToContent is True, the Value argument is ignored and the new document property is assigned a default value until the linked property values are updated by the container application (usually when the document is saved).

• LinkSource
  Type: System.Object

  Optional Object. Ignored if LinkToContent is False. The source of the linked property. The container application determines what types of source linking you can use.

Return Value

Type: Microsoft.Office.Core.DocumentProperty

Remarks

If you add a custom document property to the DocumentProperties collection that’s linked to a given value in a Microsoft Office document, you must save the document to see the change to the DocumentProperty object.

You can only add a new document property to the custom DocumentProperties collection.

See Also

Reference

DocumentProperties Interface

DocumentProperties Members

Microsoft.Office.Core Namespace