Reviewing the View Properties and Edit Properties Tools

All documents have properties, whether they are saved in SharePoint document libraries or not. Documents have filenames, created date and time, modified date and time, author, and other tags attached to the document. SharePoint allows document library administrators to define additional properties, which are metadata fields, that will be stored in that document library. Unlike some basic file properties, properties defined by metadata fields may get stripped from the document if it is moved to a different document library that doesn’t contain the same metadata columns. The View Properties and Edit Properties tools allow users of the library to see what information is available within the ...

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