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That Google was busted for taking a potshot at eBay’s trade practices was largely down to some lazy clerical work. The metadata that is contained in our documents goes unnoticed by many people, but there are some lines of work where it is important not to leave a trace. Not everyone wants a link between themselves and a document and the easiest way to eliminate that link is to clean up the metadata.
There are two ways that you can go about this. The simplest method involves opening the document properties by right clicking on the document and then selecting Properties. Next, click the Details tab.
As you can see from the image below, it is then possible to select Remove Properties and Personal Information.
Clicking the link will then allow you to selectively remove personal information from your document.
The result, as you can see below, is a clean Document Properties. The default selection up the top is to create a copy and remove personal data from the properties in the copied file. It is always good practice to do so, but if you have absolutely no need for it, you can go ahead and select the second option which will remove them from the primary file.
You can see the result below.
This method is good if you want to prepare a clean document, but what if you need some of that metadata or want to edit specific types of metadata that cannot be altered through the properties? If you want to look at how to remove reviewer names without removing your comments, check out part 2.
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