Remove personal information from a Word document with a plugin

The Word document automatically records various ancillary information, such as the author, company name, last edit time, annotation, and so on, when it is saved. Since this information can be easily obtained by readers of any document, we need to remove this information from a Word document in certain circumstances, such as publishing to the Internet, and interacting with external people. Now let's take a look at the specific implementation methods.

First, set security options

Select the tools → options menu command in the Word document, select the Security tab in the Open Options dialog box, check the "Remove personal information from file properties on save" checkbox, and click OK.

With these settings, all content that involves personal information is automatically deleted from the document the next time you save the document.

Second, use the "Remove Hidden data" plug-in

Although the personal information will not be preserved after the above setup, but there is nothing for the annotations and version information contained in the document, we recommend the "Remove Hidden data" plugin. The "Remove Hidden Data" Plug-in is a Microsoft Office plug-in that allows us to permanently delete hidden data and collaboration data from Office documents.

After you install the Remove Hidden Data plug-in, a menu item named Remove Hidden data is added under the File menu of the Word document. Click the Menu Launch Action Wizard, and then click the Browse button on the interface to specify the save file name after you delete the hidden data, and then click the Next button, and the plugin begins the delete operation, and then click Finish.

What you need to explain here is that the filename is being redefined to not break the user's original document. Because Plug-ins delete comments, version information, and so on during work, the information is reserved for the author of the document.