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From: Island Girl on 13 Apr 2010 14:04 An attorney in our office asked me to tell him the best way to remove metadata from a document. Although we have a "metadata washer" program on the system (used mostly after track changes), I told him that I thought it was better to "paste special" the document as unformatted text. I've worried a little about that answer since then, so I thought I'd ask you if what I told him was reasonable. What would your answer have been? And thanks for being there during the countless times I've needed you!
From: Yves Dhondt on 13 Apr 2010 14:35 How is the document stored? For example, if you save a document as a docx, then Word takes the username entered in Word and stores it inside the document. You could try the "Inspect" functionality in Word 2007 but even that leaves traces. The only way to be a 100% sure that your file does not contain any metadata is to either go over its source in a simple text editor like notepad (rename docx to zip and manually inspect all the files) or to store it as a simple txt file. Yves "Island Girl" <IslandGirl(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4E42CC5F-2FFE-4137-BEB1-9A45AF4FB39D(a)microsoft.com... > An attorney in our office asked me to tell him the best way to remove > metadata from a document. Although we have a "metadata washer" program on > the system (used mostly after track changes), I told him that I thought it > was better to "paste special" the document as unformatted text. > > I've worried a little about that answer since then, so I thought I'd ask > you > if what I told him was reasonable. > > What would your answer have been? > > And thanks for being there during the countless times I've needed you! > >
From: Island Girl on 13 Apr 2010 16:05
Thanks for your helpful reply, Yves. We're still working in Word 2003, but I'll certainly try your second suggestion. "Yves Dhondt" wrote: > How is the document stored? For example, if you save a document as a docx, > then Word takes the username entered in Word and stores it inside the > document. > > You could try the "Inspect" functionality in Word 2007 but even that leaves > traces. The only way to be a 100% sure that your file does not contain any > metadata is to either go over its source in a simple text editor like > notepad (rename docx to zip and manually inspect all the files) or to store > it as a simple txt file. > > Yves > > "Island Girl" <IslandGirl(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:4E42CC5F-2FFE-4137-BEB1-9A45AF4FB39D(a)microsoft.com... > > An attorney in our office asked me to tell him the best way to remove > > metadata from a document. Although we have a "metadata washer" program on > > the system (used mostly after track changes), I told him that I thought it > > was better to "paste special" the document as unformatted text. > > > > I've worried a little about that answer since then, so I thought I'd ask > > you > > if what I told him was reasonable. > > > > What would your answer have been? > > > > And thanks for being there during the countless times I've needed you! > > > > > > . > |