In the previous article, we looked at an easy way to cull metadata in MS Word documents. The same method could equally well be applied to MS Excel or Powerpoint. It does allow you to selectively remove just about all of the metadata from your document, but does not cover all of your bases.
The following method deals with reviewer metadata that is included in documents. There can be plenty of reasons why you don’t want your reviewers’ information to be visible. If you want to learn how to get rid of it, read on.
Recently I found myself in a position where a document reviewer had revealed a little personal information that a client did not really need to see. While it was no big deal, I thought that in the interests of privacy, it would be best to eliminate the information. more