Paranoid computer tip of the day
As you may know, all sorts of metadata lives in your Word and Excel documents. Things like the entire history of Word's "track changes" associated with that document, or the author, or when the document was last saved--even, I am told, which other documents that you had open at the same time. And this stuff can even remain with the document when it's converted to a pdf.
I can think of a million reasons you might not want this information to remain encoded in documents you send out. Fortunately, the folks at Microsoft have generously provided this add-in that will scrub the metadata from your documents.
I can think of a million reasons you might not want this information to remain encoded in documents you send out. Fortunately, the folks at Microsoft have generously provided this add-in that will scrub the metadata from your documents.
posted by Waage on Tuesday, January 24, 2006
1 Comments:
Wow! Thanks for this. The other day, I was idly scrolling over a document thumbnail, when the author information and brief summary popped up.
Like so many business documents, this one had been cut and pasted so many times, that it would be tough to say what the original document was. However, what it did show was the source document came from an old VP of a previous employer, twice removed, which in a small town like Seattle is not an ideal thing to have as your file's metadata.
It was a real forehead slapper.
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