Check or change the Document Properties for your presentation

PowerPoint maintains a large collection of information about each presentation you create. Together, this information is called "Document Properties".

Among other things, Document Properties can tell you:

• The size of your presentation file and where it's stored.
• The Subject, Author, keywords, comments and more such "metadata" about your presentation, if you or someone else has entered it.
• When the presentation was created, edited, printed; who saved it last, how many times it's been revised and how much time has been spent editing it.
• How many slides, words, paragraphs, etc. are in the presentation.
• What fonts, theme, template, external documents and so on the presentation uses.
• Custom properties that you define to suit your own needs.

Sometimes it's useful to look at or edit the properties of your presentation. Here's how ...

How to work with Document Properties

To examine or set Document Properties in PowerPoint 2007 and later:

• Choose Office Button | Prepare | Properties.
• You can see/change some basic document properties in the Document Properties pane that appears.
• Next to the text Document Properties there's a downward pointing arrowhead.
• Click it and choose Advanced Properties.
• The Properties dialog box appears. Here you can work with many more properties on the various tabs.

To examine or set Document Properties in PowerPoint 2003 and earlier:

• Choose File | Properties
• The Properties dialog box appears. Here you can work with many more properties on the various tabs.

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