Word - removing properties on the document

[brad]

Is there any way in which one can hide the information
shown under Statistics and General which are shown under
a Word doc's File/Properties menu? Each time I manage
the document, I have to copy and paste it into a new doc
in order that these "properties" are not shown. Thanks
Brad

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Brad,

Is there any way in which one can hide the information
shown under Statistics and General which are shown under
a Word doc's File/Properties menu? Each time I manage
the document, I have to copy and paste it into a new doc
in order that these "properties" are not shown.

Depending on the version of Word, there are tools to remove
"Meta data" in the document.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[charles]

Depending on the version of Word, there are tools to remove
"Meta data" in the document.

Could you provide a link to these tools?

I searched through both links in your sig and found nothing.

Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=144E54ED-D43E-42CA-
BC7B-5446D34E5360&displaylang=en (you'll need to paste this link back
together).

 

[charles]

See
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=144E54ED-D43E-42CA-
BC7B-5446D34E5360&displaylang=en (you'll need to paste this link back
together).

Thanks but that's for 2003. I should have specified - do you know of
anything for 2000?

Would also appreciate recommendations for a cleaner that would remove
this metadata from lots of old Word docs too.

Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

According to the information I received:

It operates as an add-in for Office XP and Office 2003 (specifically, for
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). The add-in will only install on systems that
have either Office XP or Office 2003 installed. However, since the file
formats haven't changed in quite a while, the add-in will handle docs
created by Office 97 and Office 2000.

 

[charles]

Thanks. I did install it but Word 2000 can't load it and I can't see a
way to run it against files outside of the application. If there is a
way, please let me know.

I appreciate your help. (in the other thread too)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It doesn't work for Word 2000; for some reason I thought you said you had
Word 2002 (senior moment!). But see "HOW TO: Minimize Metadata in Microsoft
Word 2000 Documents" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=237361