25 May 2012

Word 2010 “Error! Unknown document property name”

If you got an error in Word text after print preview or after printing:

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This place in your document was containing some other text. If you want to print your document without error code(s), you must convert affecting fields to text before printing.

To see, what is the field formula behind that, you can press Alt+F9, which toggles the field codes on/off. Codes will look like this:

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Anyway, you must open the document again and convert each field to text with Ctrl+Shift+F9 (your cursor must be inside the field and the surrounding text will be grayed). Of course you can select all text with Ctrl+A to replace all fields to text at once. If the field is in footer or header area, you must double-click it first, and then press Ctrl+A-

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12 comments:

  1. Unknown11 March, 2013 15:42

    Thank you very much. This information is quite useful.

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  2. Anonymous27 January, 2014 07:18

    I thought this was a life saver, and I replaced both the items that appeared. But it still prints the message on the bottom of each page!

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  3. Anonymous05 April, 2014 00:41

    This was very helpful. You solved my problem, thanks!

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  4. Unknown10 April, 2014 09:12

    Very useful information... Thanks a lot dude...!!!

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  5. Anonymous28 April, 2014 16:42

    Perfect! I thought I knew a lot about Word but this really bailed me out.

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  6. Unknown26 June, 2014 13:20

    Thank you very much!!!!

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  7. Anonymous23 June, 2015 21:08

    You are a GENIUS! Thank you!

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  8. Anonymous22 October, 2015 07:14

    Here is a more permanent solution:
    1. Press ALT+F9 as instructed
    2. You will notice one or more CUSTOM objects in the form
    3. “Customer Name” in this case is the CUSTOM object
    4. Do the following to define the “Customer Name” in Microsoft Word:
    a. Click FILE -> Under INFO, choose PROPERTIES -> ADVANCED PROPERTIES as shown below



    b. Click the CUSTOM tab and add “Customer Name” as the CUSTOM NAME (variable) and your real customer name as the VALUE (example ABC Corporation) as show below. Click ADD and OK after adding.



    c. Get back to your document and click ALT+F9 again to toggle back
    d. Then select entire document with CTRL+A then press F9 to update your entire document


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  9. Anonymous19 September, 2016 19:54

    Worked Great thanks

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  10. Unknown15 November, 2018 07:29

    Thank you! It helps a lot

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  11. Ahmed15 November, 2018 12:32

    You're a hero!
    Thank you very much.

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