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Fleshy Brunhilde
I have tried to teach myself and master every aspect of Word metadata
in order to "scrub" the file of my full name as the owner of a Word
2000 file. The commands on Windows 7 do not work: i.e., whether I
choose to "create another version" of the file with no personal
information (metadata) at all attached--in preparation to send it to
someone from whom for benign reasons I need to conceal this
information--or whether I choose to "remove" only certain items--OWNER
and COMPUTER--the Windows 7 Home Edition I use does not remove either.
At one in the morning, I finally renamed the computer, so that problem
is solved. With no knowledge whatsoever of fields or operands or
anything remotely related to higher or more technical levels of Word
than a non-IT person would have, I "scrubbed" the actual document's
properties (i.e., the metadata contained not in the "file"--as "file"
is defined by Microsoft--but in the "document"--as "document" is
defined by Word). I changed the Last Saved By in Properties/
Statistics, and I changed the Author there, manually, as well.
Please please please, someone help. The party to whom I am emailing
the document is aware I am not using my real name--this was a non-
negotiable with which I began our transactions and to which the
recipient of the document that needs to be sent has consented. This is
not cloak-and-dagger; it has nothing to do with anything but
maintaining scrupulous privacy in a venture whose potential failure
would cause embarrassment to me and me alone.
Finally, I have tried both to rename "Documents," to which my full
name somehow became attached and which I cannot rename, and to make a
full copy of Documents under another name. For some reason, this has
failed. I created a new User Account as well, but no new subfolder
appears in Documents that would allow the Word file I need to send to
be identified in the "path" of this new account. I'm posting at 7 a.m.
EST after three hours sleep and need to master this problem before the
end of the day. If I went to a public library, emailed myself the file
(to a pseudonymous address), and then forwarded it to the recipient
from a "foreign" PC, would the OWNER finally be removed? Thank you in
advance--please, someone answer.
in order to "scrub" the file of my full name as the owner of a Word
2000 file. The commands on Windows 7 do not work: i.e., whether I
choose to "create another version" of the file with no personal
information (metadata) at all attached--in preparation to send it to
someone from whom for benign reasons I need to conceal this
information--or whether I choose to "remove" only certain items--OWNER
and COMPUTER--the Windows 7 Home Edition I use does not remove either.
At one in the morning, I finally renamed the computer, so that problem
is solved. With no knowledge whatsoever of fields or operands or
anything remotely related to higher or more technical levels of Word
than a non-IT person would have, I "scrubbed" the actual document's
properties (i.e., the metadata contained not in the "file"--as "file"
is defined by Microsoft--but in the "document"--as "document" is
defined by Word). I changed the Last Saved By in Properties/
Statistics, and I changed the Author there, manually, as well.
Please please please, someone help. The party to whom I am emailing
the document is aware I am not using my real name--this was a non-
negotiable with which I began our transactions and to which the
recipient of the document that needs to be sent has consented. This is
not cloak-and-dagger; it has nothing to do with anything but
maintaining scrupulous privacy in a venture whose potential failure
would cause embarrassment to me and me alone.
Finally, I have tried both to rename "Documents," to which my full
name somehow became attached and which I cannot rename, and to make a
full copy of Documents under another name. For some reason, this has
failed. I created a new User Account as well, but no new subfolder
appears in Documents that would allow the Word file I need to send to
be identified in the "path" of this new account. I'm posting at 7 a.m.
EST after three hours sleep and need to master this problem before the
end of the day. If I went to a public library, emailed myself the file
(to a pseudonymous address), and then forwarded it to the recipient
from a "foreign" PC, would the OWNER finally be removed? Thank you in
advance--please, someone answer.