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Need free app for viewing metadata in Word documents Feb 06 2004 05:13AM
Michael Boyle (mboyle01 comcast net) (1 replies)
Re: Need free app for viewing metadata in Word documents Feb 06 2004 07:41PM
Harlan Carvey (keydet89 yahoo com)
Michael,

I'm having a little trouble following your
post...largely b/c the content seems to be different
from the subject line.

Is this post about "viewing" or "removing" metadata?

> Follow MS suggestions as previously posted.
> Then:
> Try "Remove Hidden Data" rhdtool.exe - can be used
> as command line, I
> believe, even if you don't have XP/2003. Just can't
> use on a higher
> version than what you currently have installed.

Higher version of what? The site for the tool says
you need Office 2K3 or XP...not just the os.

> You may end up with a huge RTF like file
> demonstrating that the document
> still contains previous version data. If so, then
> use File -> Versions...
> and delete the versions listed, making your new copy
> the first.

May? Have you tested it?

> A way to get an idea of success would be to save as
> an HTML document, and
> then view the XML Tag code for clues that might give
> information away.
>
> Note neither File...Save as or Remove Personal Data
> really does the trick
> completely. RTF seems to work fairly well at
> removing unwanted data.

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