Rmoving hidden content

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Linn Kubler

Hi,

I see that Word 2007 has a security feature for removing hidden personal
information from a document. I'm just wondering if there is a utiltity
available to remove this information on a group of files of Word 2003 type?

I'm talking about the directory path information that is stored in a Word
document. At a previous employer, changing a server name really caused a
performance hit because of this information. I'm about to do this again at
my current employer and was hoping to avoid the same problems.

Thanks in advance,
Linn
 
What's available is the "Remove Hidden Data add-in for Office 2003 and
Office XP" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=834427. But I don't think
the path information you mentioned is part of the "personal information" it
removes; at least, it isn't specifically mentioned in the section "Types of
data this add-in can remove".

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I suspect that it would have been looking for the attached template at its
missing location that would cause the performance hit. You would probably
need to re-attach the template from its new location. You could probably do
this in a batch process with vba, but if you have lots of documents with
lots of different attached templates in the same folders, the code could get
messy as you would have to cater for each type and probably the Word version
that created them also.


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Thanks Jay I'll give this a try. A friend of mine came to me recently about
this issue, he's seeing it at a place he works so I showed him this add-in.
He pointed out that he is working with Office 2000. I searched the MS site
but couldn't find anything like it for Office 2000.

Sorry for the long delay in responding,
Linn
 
This is actually a response to Graham Mayor's posting which I can't find in
my news reader but can see in the web based version.

I think most of these documents are based on the normal.dot template so I'm
not sure why the system would have trouble locating the original template.
How would one go about writing a script to re-attach the templates?

Thanks,
Linn

Graham Mayor wrote:
I suspect that it would have been looking for the attached template at its
missing location that would cause the performance hit. You would probably
need to re-attach the template from its new location. You could probably do
this in a batch process with vba, but if you have lots of documents with
lots of different attached templates in the same folders, the code could get
messy as you would have to cater for each type and probably the Word version
that created them also.


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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