Can you Delete all Properties from a Word file

[Peter Lamb]

I need to delete all identifying information from a Word X file that
is to be blind reviewed for a conference. I can delete information
under summary but my details are still displayed within last saved and
also in the path information.
How can I get rid of this idenifying detail. Any ideas.......Peter
Lamb

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Peter:

The best way to do this is to save it to Plain Text, RTF or Web Page
(Filtered). If you save to RTF or Web Page, you must then open the file in
a text editor and remove the identifying information. If you open the
result in Word, it will put it back, so don't!

Alternatively open the document on another user's machine, Make a change
(add and delete a space) then save and close. Do that five times, closing
the file each time.

There's a feature in the next version that enables you to select this option
on Save.

Cheers

This responds to microsoft.public.mac.office.word on 16 Jan 2004 19:09:54
-0800, (e-mail address removed) (Peter Lamb):

I need to delete all identifying information from a Word X file that
is to be blind reviewed for a conference. I can delete information
under summary but my details are still displayed within last saved and
also in the path information.
How can I get rid of this idenifying detail. Any ideas.......Peter
Lamb

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