What you don't see in your documents can hurt you... 

Microsoft Office documents automatically store information about you, your firm, your network each time your create or access a document file.  This information is called Metadata.

The following are examples of metadata information found in a typical Word document:

• Author's name/initials

• Author's company/organization name

• Server name on which the document is stored

• File properties/summary information

• Non-visible portions of embedded OLE objects

• Previous author's names and initials

• Document version, editing time and revision information

• Template details

• Hidden text

• Comments

• Smart Tags

• Network and World Wide Web links

KI Systems' Metadata Tool effectively removes metadata information from your Word 2003 documents.

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Metadata Tool Features:

• Integration with Microsoft Word 2003 includes:

  • Ability to remove metadata from Open documents

  • Ability to remove metadata from a copy of your Open document

  • Six metadata Processing Levels - including your own custom settings

  • Access to Advanced Metadata Tool Configuration options

  • Ability to Analyze Word document (.doc), Rich Text File (.rtf) and Word template (.dot) metadata attributes

  • Ability to Print and Save a report of metadata attributes found in documents

  • Automatic launch of the Metadata Tool when Send To is selected from Microsoft Word

• Integration with Microsoft Outlook 2003

  • Ability to detect and remove metadata from email attachments on Send

  • Six metadata Processing Levels - including your own custom settings

  • Access to advanced Metadata Tool Configuration options

  • Ability to Analyze each email attachment's metadata attributes

  • Ability to Print and Save a report of each email attachment's metadata attributes

• Integration with Explorer

  • Ability to select one or many documents to process

  • Six metadata Processing Levels - including your own custom settings

  • Ability to Analyze Word document (.doc), Rich Text File (.rtf) and Word template (.dot)  metadata attributes

  • Ability to Print and Save a report of each file's metadata attributes

• Integration with Document Management Systems

  • Support provided for Hummingbird DM5 and Docs Open products

  • Support provided for Interwoven infoRite 5.x and DeskSite 6.x products

  • Support provided for WorlDox

Additional information regarding metadata:

For more information regarding metadata information stored in your Office documents, please read the following Knowledge Base articles from Microsoft:

Q825576 - How to Minimize Metadata in Microsoft Word 2003

Q290945 - How to Minimize Metadata in Microsoft Word 2002

Q237361 - How to Minimize Metadata in Microsoft Word 2000 Documents