. In document properties, the properties Author, Manager, and Company on the Summary tab, and Last saved by on the Statistics tab. All names associated with comments or tracked changes are changed to “Author.”. If you add or edit your name in a specific comment or elsewhere in your file, that information is not removed by this procedure. You must remove that information manually.
How to remove personal and hidden data from Microsoft Word using. Inspector Visit http://drlalford.ecrater. Oct 13, 2017 - In the 'Document Inspector' dialog box, select the check boxes to choose the types of hidden content that you want to be inspected. Click 'Remove All' Click 'Close' Save the document.
To specify the personal information that appears in Office documents, has this advice: To help maintain the level of privacy that you want, you can edit or remove any of the author and contact information that is associated with Office documents. The author and contact information that you specify automatically appears in all your Office documents, including those that you share with other people, unless you remove your personal information from a document. On the Word menu, click Preferences.
Under Personal Settings, click User Information. Make the changes that you want. When you update the information in one Office application, the information is automatically updated for all Office applications.
A cautionary note: the metadata removal in Word for the Mac does not appear to be as thorough as Prepare Inspect Document in the Windows version. Users would be best served by converting their documents to Acrobat and using. Nice advice for removing personal information from a Word for Mac document. Once again, Microsoft seems to “penalize” Mac users by leaving out the “Prepare Inspect Document” in the Windows version (even including Word 2010). Converting a document to PDF in Acrobat is not really a workable solution for attorneys who negotiate document terms in a reasonably cooperative manner.
Although Acrobat allows for annotation, exchanging PDF files between attorneys is a bit like going back to sending hard documents in the mail or by fax, and having an assistant manually “redline” the document, etc.
Removing metadata from a file Modified on: Wed, 18 Apr, 2018 at 4:50 PM What is metadata? Metadata is information about a set of data or file. For example, a word document contains primary data (ie. What you'd see on the page when you print) while also containing metadata related to that document which could include the author, date created, date modified, file size etc. What files contain metadata? Most electronic files types will contain metadata. Standard Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF files will contain basic metadata including author, date created, date modified, etc.
Why would I remove metadata? There are many reasons one might want to remove metadata from a file but the most common ones relate to security and anonymity. If you are looking to ensure a document does not contain personal or identifiable information you would want to make sure the metadata is also removed. In other cases, you may also want to ensure that the author of a document remains anonymous to remove any potential bias when reading or reviewing it which again would require you to remove the metadata from the file. How do I remove metadata? The links below contain additional resources that will provide instructions on how to remove metadata from both Microsoft Word documents as well as PDF Documents. If you are looking for additional information regarding the removal of metadata from additional file types not provided please reach out to [email protected] for further support.
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