Users would be best served by converting their documents to Acrobat and using Acrobat’s Examine or Sanitize Document features. When you update the information in one Office application, the information is automatically updated for all Office applications.Ī 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.
The author and contact information that you specify automatically appears in all your Office documents, including those that you share with other people, unless you remove your personal information from a document. To help maintain the level of privacy that you want, you can edit or remove any of the author and contact information that is associated with Office documents. To specify the personal information that appears in Office documents, Office:Mac has this advice: You must remove that information manually.
