Required Properties Missing - just started happening

Question

_{Thursday, January 10, 2019 3:20 PM}

I have a user that came to me with a document that is getting the following error.

The Sharepoint site this comes from does have required fields.  All are populated.  I thought it still might be a metadata issue so I copied it to my onedrive and it still had the error.  Only after saving a copy to a local drive did the message go away.

I have thousands of docs that don't have this issue that exist in my SharePoint 2013 server.  I'm trying to determine how this happened.  Anyone else ever see this?

David Jenkins

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_{Friday, January 11, 2019 2:47 PM ✅Answered}

Turns out the issue was with a multivalue property.  I have a lookup list that allows users to select multiple items and save.  Apparently there is a limit to the number of items that can be selected before word freaks out.

I removed some of the values and it started working again.

David Jenkins

_{Friday, January 11, 2019 9:00 AM}

Hi David,

As far as I know, documents in a SharePoint document library, on a Web site, or in a public folder might have associated document library properties. When you open a document from a document library in Word 2016, Excel 2016, or PowerPoint 2016 that contains associated document library properties, you'll see a warning notification beneath the ribbon as shown in your screenshot above.

To fix the issue, you can view and edit associated document library properties in your Word, follow the below method:

Click Edit Properties to view the document library properties. Office navigates you to the Info tab in the File menu. You can also reach this tab by clicking File > Info. Click Show All Properties to view and edit the document properties in the Properties section. All required properties from the document library are outlined with red borders on the Info tab in Word.

Some document library property types, such as lookups, require additional SharePoint data and can't be edited directly in the Properties section on the Info tab. These properties are displayed together with a Show Details button. To edit these property types, follow these steps.

1. Click File > Info to view the Properties section on the Info tab.
2. Click Show Details.

3. Edit the property value in the metadata web dialog box. This dialog box is the same as the metadata web dialog box in the Microsoft SharePoint web user interface.

4. Click OK to save your changes to the property.

Hope it’s helpful. Anything unclear, please feel free to let us know.

Best Regards,

Herb

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