Convert document properties to text?

Question

Is it possible to convert document property values to plain text?  I need to create a macro to select all doc properties in the document & convert them to plain text and can't figure out a way to do that (it doesn't convert when I treat it like a field & use Alt-A (to select all) followed by Ctrl-Shift-F9 (to convert field to text). 

Thank you for you help!

Answer 1

Many of the document properties inserted with UI are inserted as content controls (not fields).  You can convert content controls to text with VBA:

Sub ScratchMacro()

'A basic Word macro coded by Greg Maxey

Dim oCC As ContentControl

  For Each oCC In ActiveDocument.ContentControls

    oCC.Delete

  Next oCC

End Sub

or you can use:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/content_control_tools.html

Answer 2

Johasia,

Unless I missed it, the add-in accommodates locked CCs for the purposes of deleting/converting to text.  Give it a try.

Answer 3

Thanks so much, Greg!

This is perfect!

It errored out on a few properties because they were locked but I was able to manually select them & use Developer tab > Properties to clear the locked for deletion checkbox.