How to read Word - Excel summary informations ?

[ithier]

I would like to read the informations (author, title, contents ...) that appear in the tab "Summary" of the%2

MSDN article Q122239 has details about how to get the Word document summary information via automation.
Basically, Wordbasic's curvalues.FileSummaryInfo object returns all the information you need....

[ithier]

Thank you for your answer, unfortunatly, I want to do that in C++ and without Word or Excel installed: reading directly the compound file and decoding the SummaryInformation stream but I cannot find documentation about that. So if so

[Andy Pattrick]

Look at the MFC sample entitled DRAWCLI, this shows you how to read summary information and even contains a couple of classes to do it....

If anyone knows how to get hold of and display the dialogs which explorer uses to show this information then I'd really like to know. I can't find then anywhere. I thought they might be some kind of common control / dialog but it appears not.

Cheers Andy

[ithier]

Thanks

Ithier