December 19, 2007

Remove tell-tale metadata from Microsoft apps

December 17th, 2007

Posted by Robin Harris

When you send a Word document to a client or a co-worker, you are also sending metadata – info about the document – as well. You can easily include embarrassing comments, hidden text or info helpful to hackers. Here’s how to get rid of it.

Start with this Microsoft support document
Titled How to minimize metadata in Office documents, the document covers the following Office apps:

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December 19, 2007

al said:

MS has a plugin
http://tinyurl.com/yq3vd3
called ‘remove hidden data’. It works quite well.

However, while you can put it on every machine, you can’t make that fool sitting at the keyboard USE the thing before publishing a document….
Wonder when that plugin will come out

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