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Understanding the Office link

Property data synchronization is the primary configurable feature of the Microsoft Office link. The link can synchronize the property (and field) values of files created by the Office applications that are linked to Meridian document properties.

Meridian can synchronize property values automatically at key events in a document’s life cycle and manually using commands in the Meridian client applications and provided by add-ins installed in the linked applications. The synchronization events are determined by the document’s type, as described in Configuring title block updates. You configure the Office link by specifying:

You configure the Office link by editing a text file in Configurator as described in the following topics.

Related tasks

Configuring the Office link

Configuring the Application Integration properties pane