{"id":284,"date":"2013-04-05T16:33:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/?p=284"},"modified":"2013-04-05T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:33:55","slug":"how-to-strip-metadata-from-a-word-2010-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/2013\/04\/05\/how-to-strip-metadata-from-a-word-2010-document\/","title":{"rendered":"How to strip metadata from a Word 2010 document"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the purpose of anonymous submission of coursework, not only should students exclude their name and other identifying details from the content of the document (such as title page, footer etc.), they should also remove identifying metadata from the file properties.<\/p>\n<p>There are probably various ways of doing this, depending on which word processing package they use (and which version), and how they create their PDF documents (some PDF writers offer the option to strip out metadata&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>This posting describes how to strip out metadata from a <strong>MS Word 2010<\/strong> document, before converting to PDF.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 On the <strong>File<\/strong> menu, click on <strong>Info<\/strong>. One of the options provided is <strong>Prepare for Sharing<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Before sharing this file, be aware that it contains document properties, author&#8217;s name&#8230;.&#8221; etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/prepare-for-sharing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/prepare-for-sharing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/prepare-for-sharing.jpg 555w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/prepare-for-sharing-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Click on the box <strong>Check for issues<\/strong> and select <strong>Inspect document<\/strong>. This brings up the <strong>Document Inspector:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/Inspector.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-286\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/Inspector.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/Inspector.jpg 476w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/Inspector-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Decide which items you wish to inspect; in this case make sure that the second option is selected: &#8220;Document Properties and Personal Information&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4<\/strong>: Click <strong>Inspect<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5:<\/strong> Decide which properties you wish to remove and then click <strong>Remove All<\/strong>. Confirmation will be provided that &#8220;Document properties and personal information were successfully removed&#8221;. Close the Document Inspector window.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/remove-all.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-287\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/remove-all.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/remove-all.jpg 502w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/remove-all-300x81.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/confirmatino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-289\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/confirmatino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/confirmatino.jpg 550w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/confirmatino-300x55.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 6:<\/strong> Create a <strong>PDF version<\/strong> of the document using your usual PDF writing software.<\/p>\n<p>When other users access the PDF file and click on <strong>Properties<\/strong>, the personal information is not visible:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/clean-PDF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-288\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/clean-PDF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/clean-PDF.jpg 357w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/files\/2013\/04\/clean-PDF-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the purpose of anonymous submission of coursework, not only should students exclude their name and other identifying details from the content of the document (such as title page, footer etc.), they should also remove identifying metadata from the file &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/2013\/04\/05\/how-to-strip-metadata-from-a-word-2010-document\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}