Removing personal information
Microsoft Office apps are a daily driver at work, home and form a critical part of our daily lives. But in hindsight, Office apps tend to collect and save our metadata, including document properties, content type, author name, email address, people who have worked on the document, when it was created, etc. This information could be potentially harmful, especially when some kind of sensitive work is being carried out; it would be preferable to avoid this privacy nightmare where everything ends up being exposed. If you are wondering how you can remove personal information from an Office document, you can follow the steps given below:
Open Office 2010 or 2013, click on the File menu, Click Info and you will see the Inspect document in the bang centre of the page. In Office 2007, click on Office 2007 orb button on the ribbon, move towards ‘Prepare’ and click inspect document.
As highlighted by the arrows below; you can open ‘Inspect Document’ and click on “Check for issues” option.