XPath expression to a custom property in Word 2007 ? "Kay-Christian Wessel" <kayhanse[ at ]netcom.no> 11/9/2008 8:07:07 PM Here is the mapping to the core properties : Dim objcc As ContentControl Dim objNode As CustomXMLNode Dim objMap As XMLMapping Dim blnMap As Boolean ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties("Author").Value = "David Jaffe" Set objcc = ActiveDocument.ContentControls.Add _ (wdContentControlDate, ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).Range) Set objNode = ActiveDocument.CustomXMLParts.SelectByNamespace _ ("http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/metadata/core-properties") _ (1).DocumentElement.ChildNodes(1) Set objMap = objcc.XMLMapping blnMap = objMap.SetMappingByNode(objNode) Here is the core property file : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?> - <cp:coreProperties xmlns:cp="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/metadata/core-properties" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:dcmitype="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <dc:creator>Kay</dc:creator> <cp:lastModifiedBy>Kay</cp:lastModifiedBy> <cp:revision>5</cp:revision> <dcterms:created xsi:type="dcterms:W3CDTF">2008-11-08T18:23:00Z</dcterms:created> <dcterms:modified xsi:type="dcterms:W3CDTF">2008-11-08T18:33:00Z</dcterms:modified> </cp:coreProperties> I was hoping to create a mapping against the custom property file : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?> - <Properties xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/custom-properties" xmlns:vt="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/docPropsVTypes"> - <property fmtid="{D5CDD505-2E9C-101B-9397-08002B2CF9AE}" pid="2" name="MyFirstCustomProperty"> <vt:lpwstr>David Jaffe</vt:lpwstr> </property> - <property fmtid="{D5CDD505-2E9C-101B-9397-08002B2CF9AE}" pid="3" name="MySecondCustomProperty"> <vt:lpwstr>SecondText</vt:lpwstr> </property> </Properties> Any ideas how to do this ? Kay