Guide/Part Five · Save, protect, recover

Document properties

Document Properties holds the document's title, author, and genre, plus a short history of the work.

1. Choose File ▸ Document Properties (in Draft or Review).
2. Edit Title, Author, and Genre, then click Save. These flow through to your PDF and DOCX exports. If you leave Title empty, exports use the file name. The {title} field in a header or footer follows the same rule. Save the document to keep your changes.

Below the fields, a read-only History section shows when the document was Created, its Days written (the number of days its word count changed) and Words written (the net words written), and when it was Last edited (the last day its word count changed).

In a review copy you received from an author, the fields are read-only.