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How to Find Metadata in Word Documents

By: C. Taylor
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Microsoft Word 2013 automatically adds metadata, such as the document's creators and the time the document was composed or edited, to documents. You can choose to manually add metadata to a document, including titles, tags and comments. To discover what metadata is attached to a document, go to the Info tab or inspect the document to view or remove this data.

View Metadata

The File tab opens Info and Document Inspection options.
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Click the File tab to open Info and Document Inspection options.

Expand the list of metadata.
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Click the Info tab and choose Show All Properties to expand the current list of data.

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The complete list of metadata information appears on the right.
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Locate the metadata entries on the right.

Remove Metadata

Open the document inspector.
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Click Check for Issues in the Info tab and choose Inspect Document.

Acknowledge the warning.
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Choose Yes from the warning dialog.

Select Document Properties and Personal Information.
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Check Document Properties and Personal Information in the list of options and click Inspect.

Remove all metadata.
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Click Remove All to delete all metadata.

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