If you need to share Microsoft Office documents with others online or through another medium such as email or USB stick, it is a good idea to remove any hidden or personal information that you may want to keep private, such as your name, company, and other metadata information that the document may contain. You can find and remove this data using the Document Inspector feature of Microsoft Office, which is what you will learn today. Read on to learn more.
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How to remove hidden data and personal information using the Document Inspector in Microsoft Word
3. Now in the Document Inspector window, make sure that all the checkboxes you want to check are selected and click Check.
4. Wait a few seconds for the Document Inspector to finish analyzing the document. You will then see an exclamation mark next to the fields where the Document Inspector found information. Click Remove All in the fields that contain the data you do not want to share, and then click Close when you are finished.
Note that you cannot undo the removal of the data after you click Remove All, so make sure it is the data you want to delete. If you don't know what type of data you are deleting, you can cancel the operation and check the document's properties by right-clicking the document, selecting Properties, and clicking the Details tab.
