Finding metadata in a word document
- Open a Word document.
- On a mac, navigate to the Word menu, click Preferences.
- Under Personal Settings, click Security.
- Under Privacy options, select the Remove personal information from this file on save check box.
- Save the document.
- The following personal information is removed from your file:
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.
- 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.
