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MICROSOFT RELEASES METADATA REMOVAL TOOL




NO MORE EMBARRASSMENTS?

Jan Libbenga
Mon 2 Feb 2004 // 12:34 UTC




A year ago, 10 Downing Street published a dossier on Iraq's security and
intelligence organisations. It was cited by none other than Colin Powell in his
address to the United Nations. Then a lecturer in politics at Cambridge
University discovered that much of the 19-page document was copied from three
different articles, one written by a graduate student.

How did he know? In the document there was a listing of the last 10 edits of the
document, showing the names of the people who worked on the file. These logs are
normally hidden and cannot be viewed directly in Word.

MS Word is notorious for containing private information in file headers, but not
any longer. Microsoft has quietly released a tool to scrub leaky metadata from
documents edited with its software. The Remove Hidden Data Add-In will
permanently remove hidden and collaboration data, such as change tracking and
comments, from MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint files. For Office XP/Office
2003 only, we should add. ®


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